Although land loss is among the most profound impacts that settler colonialism had for Indigenous societies across North America, archaeologists rarely study one of the principal colonial mechanisms of land dispossession: allotment. This process forever altered the course of North American history, breaking up collectively held Indigenous lands into lots “owned” by individuals and families while further stressing local Indigenous subsistence patterns, social relations, political organization, and more. Archaeology's long-term, material, and sometimes collaborative vantage stands to offer insights on this process and how it played out for Indigenous peoples in different times and places. As its case study, this article considers the allotment of Mohegan lands in southeastern Connecticut (USA). An archaeology of Mohegan allotment speaks to more than land loss and cultural change. It provides evidence of an enduring and long-term Indigenous presence on the land; of the challenges faced and overcome by Mohegan peoples living through, and with, settler colonialism; and of the nuances of Indigenous-colonial archaeological records. This study also shows the importance of Indigenous and collaborative archaeologies for shedding new light on these challenging but important archaeological traces.

尽管土地丧失是定居者殖民主义对北美原住民社会最深远的影响之一，但考古学家很少研究土地剥夺的主要殖民机制之一：分配。这一过程永远改变了北美历史的进程，将集体拥有的原住民土地分解为个人和家庭“拥有”的土地，同时进一步强调当地原住民的生存模式、社会关系、政治组织等。考古学的长期、物质和有时是协作的优势可以为这一过程以及它在不同时间和地点对土著人民的影响提供见解。作为案例研究，本文考虑了康涅狄格州东南部（美国）的 Mohegan 土地分配。对莫希干分配地的考古学不仅仅说明了土地流失和文化变迁。它提供了原住民在这片土地上持久存在的证据；生活在定居者殖民主义之中的莫希干人所面临和克服的挑战；以及土著殖民地考古记录的细微差别。这项研究还表明了本土和合作考古学对于为这些具有挑战性但重要的考古痕迹提供新线索的重要性。