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2024
12
Mar

Innovative Draft Management Plan for Bears Ears

Dear Friends, By the time this newsletter reaches your inbox, an extraordinary day for Archaeology Southwest will be in full swing. From 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., many of our local staff will be in a visitors’ gallery at the US federal courthouse here in Tucson. We will watch as attorneys argue a cas...
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2024
06
Mar

Tribal Leaders: Clean Energy Projects Aren’t Always Clean

Dear Friends, On Monday, March 4, the Washington Post published “‘On stolen land’: Tribes fight clean-energy projects backed by Biden,” an article by climate and environment reporter Maxine Joselow. The first half of the piece focuses on our beloved San Pedro Valley and the effort by s...
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2024
28
Feb

REPORT: Orphaned Wells and Abandoned Oil and Gas Infrastructure Pose a Significant Threat to Cultural Resources in the Southwest

New Report Explores Native American Tribal Concerns with Orphaned Wells and Discusses Common-Sense Solutions Needed for Addressing the Problem for the Long Term Tucson, Ariz. and Taos, N.M. (February 29, 2024)—Today, Archaeology Southwest released a new report titled Orphaned and Abandoned Oil a...
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2024
28
Feb

Experiencing the Lunar Standstill on Fajada Butte

Dear Friends, Over the past two weeks I have flown from Tucson to Florida, then to Denver, and back to Tucson. With 10 hours total flying time plus many hours sitting in airports, I’ve enjoyed lots of time contemplating the great work Archaeology Southwest does. One thing this organization h...
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2024
20
Feb

14th Annual Conservation in the West Poll Finds Continued Concern over Environment, Public Lands

Dear Friends, On Saturday, February 10, more than 100 friends of Archaeology Southwest gathered to celebrate and honor the long and distinguished career of recently retired founding President and CEO Bill Doelle. It was an incredible event. Board of Directors chair Dan Kimball, who has known B...
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2024
07
Feb

Tribal Co-Management: What Works Where and How?

Dear Friends, As usual, Archaeologist Southwest staff are busy working on an astonishing range of preservation, outreach, research, and advocacy projects, many of which are garnering media attention. On January 24, Skylar Begay, our Director of Tribal Collaboration in Outreach and Advocacy, pa...
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2024
06
Feb

What If TCM? A Multivocal Introduction

(February 6, 2024)—This is the third in a new series of posts that will consider the future of Preservation Archaeology. Each post will introduce a Preservation Archaeology Position Paper. Today we’re debuting “Tribal Co-Management: What Works Where and How.” We welcome and encourage fee...
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2024
04
Feb

I’itoi’s Swords: Imagining and Creating a Weapon from a Tohono O’odham Story

Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert (February 5, 2024)—In May 2023, Tohono O’odham museum curator April Ignacio contacted me to see if I would be interested in creating some obsidian swords for an exhibition they were planning. “They Don’t Love You: I...
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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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2024
23
Jan

Tribes and Conservation Organizations Sue USBLM over SunZia Route

Dear Friends, On Friday, January 19, my fifth day with this wonderful organization, I had the privilege of attending the Four Southern Tribes Cultural Resources Working Group in Ak Chin, Arizona, near Maricopa, southwest of Phoenix. (The Four Southern Tribes include the Ak-Chin Indian Community, ...
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2024
22
Jan

Tribes and Archaeology Southwest Sue USBLM over SunZia Transmission Line Route

Complaint alleges U.S. Bureau of Land Management failed to complete steps required by the National Historic Preservation Act prior to authorizing construction Tucson, Ariz. (January 22, 2024)—On January 17, 2024, the San Carlos Apache Tribe and the Tohono O’odham Nation, joined by Archaeology ...
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2024
16
Jan

A Message from Steve Nash

Dear Friends, The moment is finally here—Monday, January 15, was my first day as President and CEO of Archaeology Southwest! So far, it has been every bit as exciting as I’d hoped. From the exceptionally capable and welcoming ASW staff to the unique office setting provided by the Bates Mansio...
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