What You Need to Know about the Dakota Access Pipeline Conflict

What You Need to Know about the Dakota Access Pipeline Conflict
In recent weeks, protests against the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline across North Dakota have escalated. Native American elders, families and children have set up tepees and tents on a campsite near the pipeline’s path in the hope of stopping its construction. Dave Archambault Jr., the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe that is leading the efforts to stop the pipeline, summed up what is at the heart of the issue. In a two-minute statement before the United Nations’ Human Rights Council in Geneva, he said that “oil companies are causing deliberate destruction of our sacred places.” http://wapo.st/2fROrLx – Washington Post

Cooperative Management Would Allow for Full Tribal Participation in a Bears Ears National Monument
On Oct. 21, the Department of the Interior released a secretarial order encouraging cooperative land management partnerships between federal agencies and tribes. This comes at a prescient time in Utah when tribes are unsatisfied with how federal, state and local governments have managed their ancestral lands. This dissatisfaction is manifest in the proposal for a Bears Ears National Monument, which calls for the protection of some 1.9 million acres in southern Utah sacred to five tribes. But while the feds and tribes may find themselves in agreement, Utahns may be left with crucial questions like, “What is collaborative management, and what will it do for me?” http://bit.ly/2etnOYx – Salt Lake Tribune

EcoFlight Provides Fortunate Students a Unique View of the Landscapes of the Northern Southwest
The program, which ran Oct. 24-28, combined flights over public lands with education, as experts provided the students with a variety of perspectives on stewardship. Eight students, age 18 to 29, studied Arches and Canyonlands, the Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde national parks and Chaco Culture National Historical Park, as well as the Colorado National Monument and the proposed Greater Grand Canyon Heritage and Bears Ears national monuments. http://bit.ly/2fRPVWf – Moab Times Independent

Commemorating Historic Colorado Road Proving Difficult
Though conversations have been ongoing for years, national and state historic designations for the Animas Canyon Toll Road between La Plata and San Juan counties remains pending. Before the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, pioneers traveled from Animas City to Silverton on a wagon road that wound from Bakers Bridge to Silverton, east of U.S. Highway 550. http://bit.ly/2fRNYZM – Durango Herald

Opt Outside on November 25
A year ago our friends @REI did something different on Black Friday—they shut the co-op’s doors and spent the day outside. This year they’re closing again and Archaeology Southwest has decided to #OptOutside with them. Join us at the Southwest’s cultural heritage parks and monuments, and bring friends. Learn more at bit.ly/2dyNvMH – REI

Archaeology Café (Phoenix): Re-thinking 17th-Century New Mexico
On November 15, 2016, at 5:30 pm., we welcome Dr. Scott Ortman (University of Colorado). Ortman explains, “Recent studies of 17th-century New Mexico have focused almost exclusively on the negative consequences of Spanish contact for Native people. Although Spanish colonization was disastrous, Pueblo people also willingly incorporated many elements of Spanish culture during this period. This simple fact suggests a more balanced perspective is needed.” We meet at Macayo’s Central 4001 N. Central Ave. http://bit.ly/2etl11e – Archaeology Southwest

Hands-On Archaeology Opportunity – Tucson
Visit with Archaeology Southwest’s ancient technology expert, Allen Denoyer, on Saturday, November 12, 2016, at Oro Valley’s Fall Festival at Steam Pump Ranch. Allen will demonstrate how ancient people made stone tools and discuss work on our experimental Hohokam pithouses, which are located at Steam Pump Ranch. http://bit.ly/2fRJBOy – Town of Oro Valley

Hands-On Archaeology – New Classes
Ancient technologies expert Allen Denoyer has added some new workshops to the fall–winter schedule, including making stone and shell jewelry and making bone tools. For more information, visit: http://bit.ly/2dHbQg0 – Archaeology Southwest

Travelogue: The Casa Grande
The main building at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument near Coolidge is showing some serious wear, but here’s the thing: It’s still standing nearly seven centuries after ancient Indians built it of packed desert soil known as caliche. To put that in perspective: Will your house still be standing in the year 2700? http://bit.ly/2etjbxp – Arizona Daily Star

Sedona’s Enchantment Resort Supports Local Preservation
Anyone driving into Enchantment Resort knows one thing above all else: The facilities sit amid some of the most stunning property in the Sedona region. What many do not know is that, in addition to operating its business, Enchantment does its fair share to preserve the surrounding landscape. Established by Enchantment in cooperation with the U.S. National Forest Service in the 1990s, the Boynton Canyon Preservation Fund is an advised fund with the Arizona Community Foundation. http://bit.ly/2fRI0rV – JournalAz.com

Lecture Opportunity – Queen Creek
The San Tan Chapter of the Arizona Archaeology Society will host Matt Guebard at their Wednesday November 9^th 7pm meeting. Matt, an archaeologist with National Parks Service at Montezuma Castle National Monument in conjunction with University of New Mexico, Yavapai Apache Nation and Hopi Tribe have worked collaboratively to understand when the cliff dwellings were built, how long people have lived in them, and when/how it was abandoned.  Meeting in the San Tan Historical Museum in Queen Creek Az., 20425 S Old Ellsworth Rd. Contact Marie Britton for details mbrit@cox.net or call 480-390-3491 or 480-655-6733 http://bit.ly/1eA56Zn – Arizona Archaeological Society

Lecture Opportunity – Sedona
The next monthly meeting of the Verde Valley Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, will be held on Thursday, November 17, 7:00 pm, in the Community Room, at the Sedona Public Library, 3250 White Bear Road, in West Sedona.  PaleoIndian and Archaic Projectile Points and Rock Art of the Coconino National Forest will be the topic presented by Ron Krug and Peter Pilles.  In their presentation, Ron and Peter will discuss what projectile points and rock art imply for research and understanding of earlier cultures, the characteristics of PaleoIndian and Archaic projectile points, share maps of the distribution of those different types of points found in the CNF, and explore the implications of the distributions contained in those maps. Please join us this month for this fascinating program.  Admission is free.  For additional information or questions, contact: visit our website:  http://bit.ly/1TOb3HQ – Verde Valley Chapter of the AAS

Lecture Opportunity – Tucson
On November 8, 2016, at 5:30 p.m., the Tucson chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America welcomes Dr. Alexandra Carpino (Northern Arizona University), who will present The ‘Taste’ for Violence in Etruscan Art: Debunking the Myth. Etruscan artists used, in a wide variety of contexts, different types of violent imagery as a form of visual communication. In the scholarly literature, these representations are frequently described as not only peculiarly Etruscan (as opposed to Greek) in taste but also as indicative of a peculiar appetite for bloody or horrific imagery and a taste for gore and cruelty. The lecture will take place in room 216 of the Haury Building, 1009 E South Campus Drive, at the University of Arizona. http://aiatucson.arizona.edu/ – AIA Tucson