Carleton Bowekaty and the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition

Profile: Carleton Bowekaty and the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition
The fight to protect Bears Ears has been going on for over 80 years, since the 1930s. Despite the current setback, [Bowekaty’s] motivations to protect Bears Ears remain strong: Bowekaty wishes to reconnect his people to the land and their ancestral Pueblo lineage, and also conserve the land for future generations to come. Bowekaty is A:shiwi, known as Zuni to most. Native to the Zuni River Valley, the Zuni are considered Puebloans: one of the 19 Pueblo tribes that historically, and still, inhabit the Southwestern regions of present-day United States, from Utah to Arizona, Colorado to New Mexico. Bears Ears is among that history. http://bit.ly/2Rn0WyK – Hewlett.org

Continuing Coverage: Former Bears Ears Monument Advisory Committee Meeting
The committee meeting was held in two four-hour sessions over two consecutive days, where the 15-member committee convened with agency representatives and established roles and procedures, clarified its responsibilities and discussed management plans for the monument, which was modified in 2017 by a Presidential Proclamation into two units, Indian Creek and Shash Jaá (which includes satellite sites Moon House Ruin and Doll House Ruin). http://bit.ly/2Rktr07 – Moab Sun-News

Feature on the Bears Ears Education Center
A local non-profit has built a visitor’s center at Bears Ears National Monument to help visitors enjoy the site respectfully. Representatives say the number of visitors has increased since 2017 when the monument became national news. http://bit.ly/2RvRWrn – UPR (Utah Public Radio)

Momentum on Committee Hearing about Chaco Buffer Zone
Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are pushing for a Senate hearing on legislation that would withdraw federal holdings from oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich are asking that the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee take up the bill at its next meeting. http://bit.ly/2RmFJVK – KNAU (NPR)

Podcast: Cultural Landscapes Panel
On today’s episode Jessica [Yaquinto] hosts a panel at the 2019 Society of American Archaeology conference on Cultural Landscapes. Some of the considerations discussed include cultural landscapes and movement, landscape change through time and as a result of colonialism, the ephemeral nature of some cultural landscapes, representation of cultural landscapes, and the challenges of understanding landscape from a western science perspective. http://bit.ly/2RqYfMO – Heritage Voices

Two New Papers Consider Migration through the American Arctic
Who were the First Americans? It’s a question that for decades has divided researchers, who have proposed competing theories as to how humans moved from Eurasia into North America. The question is far from settled, though it is clear that by about 14,500 years ago (and perhaps as far back as 30,000 years ago) humans had moved from Siberia to present-day Alaska and begun to spread throughout the Americas. Now, two new studies published simultaneously in Nature are giving some more insight into who those First Americans might have been, in addition to information about later waves of migration that contributed to the Native Americans and the genetically and culturally distinct Inuit still in the region today. http://bit.ly/2RvS7Tz – Discover Magazine

Video: Prehistoric Bajada “Hanging” Canals
Don Lancaster presents his and James Neely’s latest research on hanging canals in the Safford, Arizona, region. Please note that the first section is hard to hear, but the sound improves. Don’s PowerPoint presentation is visible. A PDF preprint of their latest paper: https://www.tinaja.com/preprint-bcsb1.pdf. Video: https://youtu.be/euJ3vdfN2l0 (opens at YouTube)

Job Opportunity, Dragoon AZ
The Amerind Museum in Dragoon AZ, seeks a full-time, creative and detail oriented individual to serve as Amerind’s Director of Membership. Responsible for managing all aspects of membership related services and assisting in the administration and curatorial work of the President and Vice President. See http://www.amerind.org/employment.html for details.

Lecture Opportunity, Dragoon AZ
Lyn Loveless, Emerita professor of Biology, The College of Wooster, will give a presentation and a 45-minute walking tour at the Amerind Museum on June 22 at 11:00 a.m. Lyn will discuss her project to document the plants of Amerind and how that information can contribute to archaeology, anthropology, plant systematics, environmental management, and biodiversity protection. Please bring a hat, water, and sunscreen for the walking tour. Free with Museum admission. For more information, call 520-586-3666 or visit www.amerind.org.

Lecture Opportunity, Santa Fe NM
Southwest Seminars Presents Paul F. Reed, Archaeology Southwest, Preservation Archaeologist & Chaco Scholar, Salmon Ruins, and Gary M. Brown, former National Park Service Archaeologist (ret.), Aztec National Monument, and currently Cultural Resource Program Manager, Santa Monica National Recreation Area, National Park Service; Paul and Gary are co-editors, Aztec, Salmon, and the Puebloan Heartland of the Middle San Juan, who will give a presentation “Chaco and After Chaco: The Middle San Juan as a Pueblo Heartland” on June 24 at 6:00 p.m. at Santa Fe Women’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail, as part of the Voices From the Past Lecture Series held annually. Admission is by subscription or $15 at the door. No reservations are necessary. Refreshments are served. Seating is limited. Contact Connie Eichstaedt at tel: 505 366-2775; email: southwestseminar@aol.com; web: southwestseminars.org

Lecture Opportunity, Alcalde NM
On June 25 at 6:00 p.m., Poeh Cultural Center Collections Manager Lynda Romero will present “Co-Stewardship: Di Wae Powa: They Came Back” – A Community loan to bring 100 Tewa pots from the collections at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to the Poeh Cultural Center to reconnect Tewa peoples with the ancestral works for the continuity of cultural expression. Suggested Donation of $5 ~ Light Refreshments Served. Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Center (Former Oñate Center), 848 NM 68. https://www.mesaprietapetroglyphs.org/mesa-prieta-petroglyph-talks—upcoming.html

Lecture Opportunities at the Preservation Archaeology Field School, Cliff NM
The public is invited to a month-long series of lectures at the headquarters of the Archaeology Southwest/University of Arizona field school, 8179 Hwy 180 W, Cliff NM 88028. Look for the cream building with blue portable toilets on the north side of Hwy 180 just east of Shields Canyon Road and the highway yard. This is 2.2 miles west of the 180-211 junction in Cliff. All presentations will begin at 7:00 p.m. https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/events/

June 23, Karen Adams, Ancient Plant Domestication and Plant Management in the U.S. Southwest
June 27, Maxwell Forton, Shield Rock Art of Tsegi Canyon
July 1, Allen Denoyer, The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly Mule Creek Obsidian

Thanks to Terry Colvin for contributing to today’s edition.

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