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A Cultural Resource Management Dilemma: Anasazi Ruins and the Navajos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

H. Barry Holt
H. Barry Holt*
Affiliation:
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Branch of Land Services, P.O. Box 3785, Portland OR 97208
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Abstract

Archaeologists recently have been focusing increased attention on Native American concerns and archaeology. However, some serious issues of Native American attitudes toward the activities of archaeology have so far been overlooked. For example, in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico, archaeological activities that have been spurred by energy development violate certain tenets of the Navajo Way of living, with possible adverse effects. Suggestions for the mitigation of these effects are presented as a way of expanding the dialogue between archaeologists and Native American communities, in order to identify and resolve such ethical dilemmas.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , July 1983 , pp. 594 - 599
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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