2019
12
Mar
One Million Acres Protected
Breaking News: President Signs Significant Package of Public Lands Legislation—A Million Acres Protected
Statement: “National Conservation Lands are the big winners with this legislation, and when public lands win, we all win. These treasured places provide clean air and water, critical wildlif...
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2019
29
Jan
Rep. Grijalva Calls for Investigation of Monument Downsizings
Rep. Grijalva Calls for Investigation of Monument Downsizings
"I firmly believe that the shrinkage was in response to the coal industry and uranium mining industry — but I stand to be proven wrong," Grijalva said. "That's why we have oversight. That's why we have those investigations." Grijalva s...
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2018
26
Dec
Their Lands: Native Americans on Monument Reduction
Their Lands: Native Americans on Monument Reduction
Every few months for much of his life, the 66-year-old Navajo spiritual leader has trekked from his nearby home to this slice of land in southeastern Utah, not far from the base of the Bears Ears buttes, to gather sage. Throughout the year, he use...
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2018
18
Dec
Resilient Farmers of the Phoenix Basin
Resilient Farmers of the Phoenix Basin
From approximately A.D. 450-1400, a Native American group known today as the Hohokam overcame a harsh desert environment along with periodic droughts and floods to settle and farm much of modern Arizona. They managed this feat by collectively maintaining an ex...
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2018
27
Nov
Thought-Provoking Essay on Archaeological Headlines
Commentary: Words Matter
These myths of discovery and exploration are particularly damaging because they paint a picture where Indigenous groups are not able caretakers of their own histories and landscapes. Headlines that promote this contribute to the erasure of modern Indigenous connections to l...
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2018
20
Nov
AZ State Parks Director Ousted
AZ Governor Fires State Parks Director
Black's termination follows an Arizona Republic investigation revealing allegations from former department archaeologists that Arizona State Parks & Trails had repeatedly developed state land without regard for laws protecting Native American and other arc...
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2018
06
Nov
Life Before AD 1500 on the Upper Gila River, Southwest New Mexico
Archaeology Café returns to Changing Hands for a new season of programs exploring the deep and diverse history of Phoenix and the greater Southwest in a jargon-free zone. Dr. Karen Schollmeyer will encourage Valley residents to look east up the Gila River as she explores Life Before AD 1500 on the ...
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2018
30
Oct
Archaeologist Blows Whistle on AZ State Parks
Continuing Coverage: Archaeologist Blows Whistle on AZ State Parks
Arizona State Parks & Trails has dug up and bulldozed Native American and other archaeological sites without preserving artifacts in a rush to build visitor attractions and make money, a state archaeologist claims. In one case, ...
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2018
23
Oct
Ancestral Homelands
Interviews: Bears Ears Is My Ancestral Homeland
Jim Enote is a member of the Zuni tribe. The Zuni and other southwestern Pueblo tribes, such as the Hopi, are descendants of the Ancestral Puebloans, who inhabited the canyons and mesas of the Bears Ears region of southern Utah before migrating away i...
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2018
09
Oct
All Pueblo Council of Governors Takes Case for Chaco Protection to DC
Commentary: All Pueblo Council of Governors Takes Case for Chaco Protection to DC
Whether it is through the BLM and BIA management plan, the proposed federal legislation, or both, we want decision makers in D.C. to know that just as the United States takes great care to preserve churches, we would ...
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2018
02
Oct
Blood Flowed Like Water
Archaeology Café returns to The Loft Cinema for another season of programs exploring the deep and diverse history of southern Arizona. Join us on Tuesday, October 2, 2018, for Blood Flowed Like Water: Violence among the Sonoran Desert’s Earliest Irrigation Communities, a fascinating exploration...
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2018
26
Sep
Monument Defense Lawsuits to Be Heard in Washington DC
Monument Defense Lawsuits to Be Heard in Washington DC
A federal judge has denied the government’s effort to move the lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s shrinking of the Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to Salt Lake City and will keep them here. Judge Tanya...
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