Florence Lister Passes

Florence Lister Passes
Florence Lister, a prominent archaeologist in the American Southwest, died Sunday at her home in Mancos. She was 96. “She succeeded in a field that was dominated by men, and she found her own niche, and she lived long enough to write major books that helped the public understand archaeology in the Southwest,” said Andrew Gulliford, a professor of history at Fort Lewis College. http://bit.ly/2cnkBJ3 – Durango Herald

More on the Proposed Great Bend of the Gila National Monument
Native American tribal leaders, archaeologists and Congressman Raul Grijalva are seeking to designate more than 84,000 acres curving along the Gila River as a national monument. Grijalva introduced federal legislation to create the monument in southwest Arizona, starting west of Buckeye and extending 80 miles along some of the most arid areas of the state to protect sites considered sacred to 13 tribes. http://bit.ly/2ciqOHY – Casa Grande Dispatch

Politicians and Athletes Make the Case for Protecting Public Lands
Western lawmakers joined Olympic pentathlete Margaux Isaksen Thursday to warn against attempts to move federal lands into state or private hands and to call on the president to use his authority to expand national monuments. Isaksen joined Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Phoenix, and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada after writing a letter to a Colorado newspaper recently in which she lauded public lands for shaping her into the three-time Olympic athlete she is today. http://bit.ly/2c8bHSq – Cronkite News

BLM Releases Draft Plans for Motorsports in Recaputure Canyon to a 45-Day Public Review
The debate over motorized use in Recapture Canyon reached a critical milestone Friday, one that the Bureau of Land Management hopes will pave a resolution to one of Utah’s most embittered road controversies. The agency released a long-awaited draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for San Juan County’s proposed right-of-way through and around the archaeologically rich area that has been a flashpoint in rural Utahns’ disaffection with federal land oversight. The document lays out six alternatives, ranging from granting the county’s 12-mile network of motorized rights-of-way to leaving in place a controversial order barring motorized travel in the canyon. http://bit.ly/2cnahki – Salt Lake Tribune

Editorial: Representative Bishop’s Radical Views on Public Lands Will Wreck His Own PLI
In Utah and on Capitol Hill, Congressman Rob Bishop has been trying to peddle his Public Lands Initiative (PLI) as a grand bargain, a genuine compromise that balances different types of land use. If that claim were actually true, the PLI would probably be getting a better reception. Compromise has been the name of the game in public land policy for a long time, and good-faith efforts usually produce results. http://bit.ly/2cnj5H2 – Deseret News

Utah Governor Hints at his New Plan for Bears Ears
Gov. Gary Herbert will travel to Washington in the next few weeks to meet with Obama administration officials, and he hinted Wednesday that he may take with him a proposal for the protection of Bears Ears, an area in southeastern Utah where the White House is considering creating a national monument. Herbert would not provide details of his potential recommendation, saying that, if he did have a proposal, he would want to present it to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell before making it public. http://bit.ly/2cndZKR – Salt Lake Tribune

Why Don’t Americans Visit Their Ancient Places?
Cahokia has since been dignified with a state park and visitors center, but it’s not well known outside of Illinois and Missouri. It hardly attracts the number of visitors you’d expect for America’s version of the pyramids and the ruins of the country’s greatest, ancient city.  The same is true of impressive and important American Indian sites like the pueblos of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and the pre-historic earthworks of Poverty Point in Louisiana.  Americans travel to Machu Picchu, Petra, Troy, and Angkor Wat. So why do so few visit America’s own ruins? http://bit.ly/2cnaMev – Priceconomics.com

Downtown Gallup Designated as a Historic District
If you visit downtown Gallup anytime soon, you’ll be at New Mexico’s newest designated historic district.  The area along Route 66 is where the city built its roots. http://bit.ly/2cnckFh – KRQE News

Visiting a Place of the past and the Future: The Jemez Historic Site
Of all the historic sites in New Mexico, few are as captivating and scenic as the Jemez Historic Site. Located in the quiet village of Jemez, the site has seen its fair share of triumph and tragedy over the centuries. However, its story isn’t finished… http://bit.ly/2cncEDL – New Mexico Living

AAA Stands with Tribal Nations Opposing Dakota Access Pipeline
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) stands in solidarity with the sovereign Oceti Sakowin Oyate (the Great Sioux Nation), the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the American Indian Studies Association, and the many tribal nations in strongly opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The construction of the oil pipeline, stretching across Standing Rock Sioux lands on its 1,172 mile path from North Dakota to Illinois, would be a violation of the sacred trust between the US Government and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The proposed pipeline route crosses the sacred ancestral lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Missouri River – a major source of water for the Tribe. In doing so, it violates the cultural and collective environmental human rights of the Tribe to life, land, cultural preservation, health, clean water, and a clean environment. http://bit.ly/2cndDUF – American Anthropological Association

Lecture Opportunity – Blanding
On Saturday Sept 17, at 2pm in the Edge of the Cedars State Park, Dr. Susan Ryan will present a lecture titled Chaco Canyon and the Rise of Complexity in the Middle and Northern San Juan Regions on Saturday, Sept. 17th. Ryan’s presentation summarizes the role of Chaco Canyon in the rise of social complexity and the nature and extent of Chaco influence in the middle and northern San Juan regions. Dr. Ryan is the Director of Archaeology at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado. Her research interests include the nature and extent of Chaco influence in the northern Southwest, the A.D. 1130-1180 drought, semiotics, and the built environment.

Lecture Opportunity – Santa Fe
The Santa Fe Archaeological Society, Archaeological Society of America, is pleased to present Michael F. Brown, President of the School for Advanced Research onTuesday, September 20, 2016 at 7:30 pm at the Pecos Trail Café, 22339 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505. He will speak about the Awajun people of Northern Peru with an illustrated talk of a 40-year profile of one of the largest indigenous groups on the Peruvian Amazon.

Lecture Opportunity – Santa Fe
Southwest Seminars Presents Ehren Kee Natay (Keres/Dineh), Designer, Painter, Computer Graphics and Multimedia Artist, Musician, Dancer, Teacher, and Actor who will give a talk Portrayal of Native Peoples in Film at 6pm on September 19 at Hotel Santa Fe as part of the Native Culture Matters Lecture Series held to acknowledge the Indian Arts Research Center at School for Advanced Research. Ehren is the 2014 Rolin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellow as SAR and has won awards from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, and Recipient of the Artist Designed Collection Fellowship from Southwestern Association of Indian Arts at Santa Fe Indian Market. Admission is by subscription or $12 at the door. No reservations are necessary. Refreshments are served. Seating is limited. Contact Connie Eichstaedt tel: 505 466-2775; email: southwest seminar@aol.com; website: southwest seminars.org