The Mapping Historical Trauma in Tulsa from 1921-2021 project led by Dr. Parker VanValkenburgh (Brown University) and Dr. Alicia Odewale (Archaeology Rewritten & Rice University), based in Tulsa, OK offers a new archaeological investigation in the Historic Greenwood District, utilizing methods of restorative justice and community-centered archaeological practice. This project centralizes Black community resilience/survivance and offers a new line of investigation far outside of the city’s search for mass graves, to focus on the built environment of historic Greenwood to uncover how the famed “Black Wall Street” community has survived for over 100 years.
The Estate Little Princess Archaeological Project (ELPAP), is a project based in St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and led by a team of archaeologists under the Society of Black Archaeologists - Dr. Ayana Flewellen (Stanford University), Dr. Justin Dunnavant (UCLA), Dr. Alexandra Jones (Archaeology in the Community), Dr. Alicia Odewale (Archaeology Rewritten & Rice University), and Dr. Bill White (UCal Berkeley). ELPAP examines the dynamic lifeways of Afro-Caribbean enslaved peoples living and laboring on the Estate Little Princess sugar plantation in St. Croix during the era of Danish Colonization. Beyond the research itself, one central focus in this project is to provide free access to training in archaeological methods for HBCU students in the U.S. as well as local Crucian youth in St. Croix.
