Working on pasts for futures: Eastern pequot field school archaeology in connecticut

Working against colonialism in the future means that we have to interrogate, challenge, and break apart the emerging ideology of cultural difference. The ideology of difference obscures and de ects our critical gaze so that relations between different cultural traditions are not easily seen as matters involving hierarchy, alienation, domination, and control. Instead the ideology implies that the very real inequalities in power between peoples in the Americas are simply a matter of differing points of view, requiring that we need only learn to be more respectful and tolerant of the “stories” others wish to tell.. .