Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative

Patricia Rubertone’s research and teaching traverse archaeology, anthropology, and history to explore settler colonialism, landscape and memory, and Indigenous survivance. Her geographical focus is the Northeast U.S. where she challenges the myth of Indigenous disappearance and the notion that Indigenous people cannot be modern and urban by revealing their lived experiences. She is committed to examining continuing tactics of spatial and symbolic erasure and their effects on urban Indigenous communities in their struggles as right-bearers to modern cities.