2024
31
Jan
Continuing Coverage: US Museums Respond to New NAGPRA Regulations
Dear Friends,
Museums are back in the news again.
This week, the American Museum of Natural History in New York announced the closure of two major exhibitions focused on Native American material culture from the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains. Earlier this month, Chicago’s Field Museum, ...
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2014
23
Mar
New York Times Explores the Value of Collections-Based Research
New York Times Explores the Value of Collections-Based Research
Galleries usually get all the publicity, but at many museums the biggest news is happening in the basement. In recent years, curators, visiting scholars, interns and even students have discovered — or rediscovered — cultural treasur...
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2014
09
Feb
New Mexico's Supreme Court Reinstates Traditional Cultural Property Designation for Mount Taylor
New Mexico's Supreme Court Reinstates Traditional Cultural Property Designation for Mount Taylor
The New Mexico Supreme Court handed the pueblos of Acoma and Laguna a victory Thursday, upholding a state panel’s designation of Mount Taylor as a traditional cultural property. The ruling effectively...
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2013
12
May
Broad Coalition Supports Archaeological Preservation along the Great Bend of the Gila
Broad Coalition Supports Archaeological Preservation along the Great Bend of the Gila
Roy and Ella Pierpoint continue a 1,500-year way of life, farming near an area awash in Hohokam and Patayan treasures. The Pierpoints, who farm the land the Hohokams cultivated, say they want Congress to shield ...
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2011
13
Feb
Mount Taylor Stripped of Traditional Cultural Property Designation
Mount Taylor Stripped of Traditional Cultural Property Designation
It was about respect, said the Acoma, Hopi, Laguna, Navajo and Zuni tribes in mid-2008 pitching the designation of Mount Taylor as a traditional cultural property. A year later the TCP designation was a done deal, except that some...
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