2023
16
May
Creating a Living Land Acknowledgment
Dear Friends,
Skylar Begay first worked for Archaeology Southwest in February 2019 as a field crew member on Aaron Wright’s Lower Gila Ethnographic and Archaeological Project (LGREAP). Although Skylar—who is Diné (Navajo), Mandan and Hidatsa—had worked on maintenance tasks at archaeologica...
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2023
09
May
New Mexico Delegation Reintroduces Chaco Cultural Heritage Protection Act
Dear Friends,
My COVID has been dispatched! I’m back at work. Thanks to the many who sent kind words of support.
Friday is the day that the cyberSW team and the Tribal Working Group await with anticipation. Applications for the Native American Fellow are due. Although there is still a bit of...
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2023
05
May
New Mexicans Applaud Introduction of Legislation to Protect Public Lands Surrounding Chaco Canyon
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May 3, 2023
Contact: Abby Grehlinger, abby@team-arc.com, (856) 340-6656
New Mexicans Applaud the Introduction of Legislation to Protect Public Lands Surrounding Chaco Canyon from Oil and Gas Drilling
Indigenous communities, conservationists, preservationists, and other st...
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2023
04
May
Creating a Living Land Acknowledgment
This is the second in a new series of posts that will consider the future of Preservation Archaeology. Each post will introduce a Preservation Archaeology Position Paper. We welcome and encourage feedback and sharing.
Skylar Begay, Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa, Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outr...
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2023
02
May
All My Relations: A Model for Tribal Collaboration
Dear Friends,
I’m going to mention three colors and share a couple thoughts about each.
Black. That is the color of my mood as I continue to deal with COVID. The Paxlovid Rebound is a real thing, and it found me.
Green. That’s what chlorophyll does to both the bark and the tiny leaves o...
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2023
28
Apr
Archaeology Southwest at the SAAs, 2023 Edition—Recap
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(April 28, 2023)—In late March, some of our Archaeology Southwest staff, volunteers, and seven of last year’s Preservation Archaeology Field School students traveled to Portland, Oregon fo...
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2023
27
Apr
All My Relations: A Model for Tribal Collaboration
This is the first in a new series of posts that will consider the future of Preservation Archaeology. Each post will introduce a Preservation Archaeology Position Paper. We welcome and encourage feedback and sharing.
Ashleigh Thompson, Red Lake Ojibwe, Director, Tribal Collaboration in Research...
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2023
25
Apr
Continuing Coverage: Tucson’s Birthplace Returned to Tohono O’odham Nation
Dear Friends,
More than three years into the pandemic, one of the current COVID variants finally cornered me. Last Friday, I tested positive.
This morning, a few hours before this note landed in your inbox, I finished the Day-5 doses of Paxlovid.
Yesterday, I spent over an hour reading a lo...
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2023
18
Apr
BREAKING: City of Tucson to Begin Process of Returning Ancestral Lands to Tohono O’odham Nation
Dear Friends,
Weekend celebrations are always especially enjoyable, and last weekend I got to participate in two!
On Saturday, Allen Denoyer and I spent the afternoon demonstrating ancient technologies and meeting new friends at Tubac Presidio State Park, where the Santa Cruz Valley Heritage A...
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2023
18
Apr
Considering Applying for the cyberSW Native American Fellowship? Read This!
Joshua Watts, cyberSW Manager
(April 19, 2023)—And now for something completely different at the Preservation Archaeology blog… I’m here to tell you a bit more about the fellowship opportunity, and to encourage potential applicants to join me for a webinar on April 25. I’ll be joined by c...
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2023
18
Apr
The “Value” of Volunteerism
Jaye Smith, Team Lead, Robinson Collection Project, Archaeology Southwest
(April 18, 2023) Volunteerism—My first blog on this subject was written for Archaeology Southwest in 2016 as I was finishing up my first stint working with Preservation Archaeologist Aaron Wright on the Lower Gila R...
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2023
11
Apr
BREAKING: Grand Canyon Tribes Urge President to Designate New National Monument
Dear Friends,
cyberSW is an expanding online database that Archaeology Southwest has worked to develop with multiple university partners. For the past year, our National Science Foundation grant has supported monthly meetings with a Tribal Working Group of seven members from a cross-section of So...
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