2015
04
Oct
The Original American Revolution
The Original American Revolution
The Pueblo Revolt is a complicated narrative. However this narrative, though it is complex, came up in a protest by a group of Native people on the Santa Fe Plaza on Friday, September 11. The peaceful demonstration was held by over a dozen people holding signs du...
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2015
13
Sep
Ancient Southwestern Peoples Enjoyed Caffeine
Dr. Patrica Crown's Research on Ancient Caffeinated Drinks Reveals New Insights on Ancient Life in the Southwest
People were hankering for a jolt of caffeine more than a thousand years ago, but the drinks were a lot different than the Starbucks espresso or can of soda we gulp down today. New resear...
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2015
03
May
Western State Governments Pass "Dubious" Legislation Concerning the Transfer of Federal Lands
Western State Governments Pass "Dubious" Legislation Concerning the Transfer of Federal Lands
For the last several decades, efforts to transfer the oversight of federal land to states has arisen only in isolated legislative initiatives that eventually died out. But in a mad rush since 2012, 10 of ...
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2015
08
Feb
San Carlos Apache Lead Fight Against Mining at Oak Flat
San Carlos Apache Lead Fight Against Mining at Oak Flat
Dozens of people sang, danced and prayed outside of the San Carlos Apache tribe's office on Thursday morning before heading out on a 44-mile journey in an attempt to protect their ancestral lands at Oak Flat campground. The protesters organize...
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2015
01
Feb
A Chance for Public Comment on the Fracking of the Chacoan Landscape
A Chance for Public Comment on the Fracking of the Chacoan Landscape
The 10-member Farmington District RAC advises the Secretary of the Interior, through the BLM, on a variety of planning and management issues associated with public land management in the BLM's Farmington District. Planned agenda it...
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2015
04
Jan
Hester Davis Passes
Hester Davis Passes
We mourn the recent passing of Hester Davis, considered a national treasure by the archaeological community. She served as the Arkanas State Archaeologist from the creation of the position, in 1967, until her retirement in 1999. For many years, she also taught Public Archaeolog...
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2014
09
Mar
Southwestern Archaeology Provides Insights on Disaster Recovery
Southwestern Archaeology Provides Insights on Disaster Recovery
Following a natural disaster, vulnerability to food shortage appears to depend more on a group's ability to migrate and its positive relationships with other groups than on resource factors. That's according to a research team led by A...
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2014
23
Feb
Sacred Objects Treated with Respect on the Trip Back to Hopi and Apache Lands
Sacred Objects Treated with Respect on the Trip Home to Hopi and Apache
Two dozen ceremonial items bought last year at auction in France are set to return to Arizona in a way that pays reverence to the beliefs of American Indian tribes... That means shipping the sacred items free of plastics, bubbl...
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2014
26
Jan
Arizona Republic Urges Progress on Archaeological Monuments Expansion
Arizona Republic Urges Progress on Archaeological Monuments Expansion
If Arizona were an ugly state, it might be different. There might be more urgency to protect precious natural and archaeological wonders. Instead, efforts to expand Saguaro National Park and Casa Grande Ruins National Monument a...
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2014
05
Jan
Annenberg Foundation's Rescue of Hopi Friends: Cultural Altruism or Bad Precedent?
Hopi Perspective on Annenberg Purchase
After two failed lawsuits in French courts this year to stop auctions of sacred objects, the Native American Hopi tribe had a small victory on December 10 when the Los Angeles-based philanthropic organization the Annenberg Foundation announced that it had ste...
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2013
29
Dec
Reinventing the West - Recreation vs. Extraction
Reinventing the West
A strange thing happened in Escalante, Utah, during the government shutdown last fall. The town, a remote community of fewer than 800 souls perched on a high desert plain around a trickle of water called the Escalante River, is surrounded on all sides by the Grand Staircase-Esca...
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2013
22
Dec
Peabody Coal, the Black Mesa Archaeological Project, and Repatriation Problems
Peabody Coal, the Black Mesa Archaeological Project, and Repatriation Problems
In 1967 Peabody Energy needed to clear land it was leasing on the Navajo reservation to strip mine coal, but ancient Indian dwellings and graves were in the way. So, as required by law, it hired a team of archeologists ...
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