Involved in
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Project The Great Bend of the Gila
John R. Welch directs Archaeology Southwest’s Landscape and Site Preservation Program. Welch has spent more than three decades facilitating research, resource management, and outreach partnerships with Tribes in upland Arizona and New Mexico. Welch served as the archaeologist and historic preservation officer for the White Mountain Apache Tribe from 1992 to 2005, and continues on the board of the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation, a Tribally chartered nonprofit he helped found in 1997. Welch joined the faculties of Simon Fraser University’s Archaeology Department and School of Resource and Environmental Management as a Canada Research Chair in 2005, and has published widely on opportunities and challenges at the interface of cultural and resource management in Indigenous contexts.