The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The San Juan Basin in northern New Mexico sits in the rain shadow of the Chuska Mountains and comprises a rich cultural landscape. The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project consists of 350 miles of water pipeline in the San Juan Basin that will convey water from the San Juan River to the Navajo Nation, the Jicarilla Apache Nation, and the city of Gallup. As beneficial as this project will undoubtedly be to local communities, hundreds of cultural resources have the potential to be affected by the construction of this project. This session focuses on the strategies employed by Bureau of Reclamation engineers, Native American tribes, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to creatively minimize adverse effects to this rich cultural landscape and recover important data and information in the process. These strategies go well beyond simply excavating archaeological features within the construction right-of-way and tallying the recovered artifacts. The papers in this session provide examples of the multivocal approach employed on this project and the various ways tribes, engineers, and researchers worked together to preserve and understand the history of this important landscape.

Other Keywords
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Cultural Resource Management • Ancestral Pueblo • Archaic • Pueblo • Survey • Cultural Heritage and Preservation • Lithic Analysis • Geoarchaeology • Architecture

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Colorado (State / Territory)

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  • Archaeological Evidence of the 1848 Newby Campaign Against the Navajos (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ernie Rheaume. Dennis Gilpin.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1848, towards the end of the Mexican War, Colonel Edward Newby, Commander of the Ninth Military Department of New Mexico, responded to Navajo raids on New Mexican settlements by leading a military campaign against the Navajos, which imposed the second treaty between the United...

  • The Architecture of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kye Miller.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Architecture is an intimate element of material culture, and was employed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists for thousands of years throughout the Navajo-Gallup project area. The way in which individuals constructed and organized space within these structures are...

  • Exploring the Hopi Youth Component of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Stewart Koyiyumptewa. Joel Nicholas. Trent Tu’tsi. Hawthorn Dukepoo.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 1989, the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office (HCPO) has conducted numerous archaeological and ethnographic studies. All of the past projects involved the input of the Hopi Cultural Resource Advisor Task Team, representing twelve villages, clan groups and religious societies...

  • Flaked Stone Artifacts from the San Juan and Cutter Laterals of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only John Williams. Sarah Simeonoff.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of a lithic analysis of several archaeological sites subjected to data recovery efforts by PaleoWest within the San Juan Lateral and Cutter Lateral of the Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP). Three broad reduction strategies were identified...

  • Inter-Agency Inter-Cultural Cooperation (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Begay.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Navajo Nation has been working with the Bureau of Reclamation and several southwest Indian Tribes on the construction of the Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP) for the last couple of years. The Heritage and Historic Preservation Department is the Navajo Nation lead for...

  • Landscapes, Landforms, and Landform Elements: Putting the "Land" Back into Landscape Archaeology (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirk Anderson.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Chuska Mountains are a landform that extends north-south for approximately 70 kilometers, marking the western boundary of the San Juan Basin. The low mountains, broad piedmont, and sluggish drainages grade towards Chaco Wash, the main drainage in the area. Alluvial and eolian...

  • Managing the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Federal Archaeologist's Perspective (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Bowen.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 authorized Reclamation to construct the Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP) to provide a long-term water supply to the Navajo Nation, the Jicarilla Apache Reservation, and the City of Gallup. This project was subsequently...

  • Middle Archaic Period Subsistence and Resource Use Practices in the Chuska Valley, New Mexico (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Loven. Kathryn Puseman. Kye Miller. Christy Briles. John G. Jones.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recent discovery and investigation of a Middle Archaic period campsite in the southern Chuska Valley has provided substantial insight into the relative importance of various plant and animal resources to the mobile inhabitants of the San Juan Basin region. Data generated from...

  • Mortuary Customs at a Small Pueblo II Habitation Site in the Chuska Valley, New Mexico (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Yost. Jeremy Loven. Steven Gilbert.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent data recovery investigations conducted by PaleoWest Archaeology as part of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project uncovered four human burials at a small Ancestral Puebloan residential site (NM-Q-14-104) located in the Chuska Valley area of northwest New Mexico....

  • Nature and Organization of Ceramic Production During Early Phases in the Chuska Valley (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean Wilson.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Examination of pottery recovered during recent investigations of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project include the recording of stylistically-based typological categories and descriptive attributes relating to the manufacture and exchange of pottery vessels. This data provides...

  • Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: Best Management Practices Manual (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Erick Laurila. Jewel Touchin. Saul Hedquist. Shawn Kelley. Shere Churchill.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP) is a Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) sponsored project in northwest New Mexico that will convey water from the San Juan River to Navajo and Jicarilla Apache communities, as well as to the City of Gallup. Reclamation developed a...

  • Navajo-Gallup: A View from 100,000 Feet (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Thompson. Thomas N. Motsinger.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When PaleoWest Archaelogy was awarded the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project it was the largest cultural resource project in the U.S. The scope of the project created numerous complexities ranging from varied land ownership, density and diversity of cultural resources, and...

  • Pueblo of Acoma's Rapid Ethnographic Surveys of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Damian Garcia. Everett Garcia. Christopher Garcia. Kimberly Pasqual. Darwin Vallo.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pueblo of Acoma officially signed onto the NGWSP Programmatic Agreement to be a Concurring Party member on May 20, 2016. At that time, the Bureau of Reclamation provided the Pueblo with a Financial Assistance Award (FAA) that would be used for Phase I of this project. ...

  • Recent Investigations of the Los Rayos – Red Willow Chacoan Landscape (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James Potter. Dennis Gilpin. Dean Wilson. Mike Mirro.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Los Rayos-Red Willow Chacoan landscape, east of Tohatchi, New Mexico, consists of the Los Rayos great kiva and at least seven surrounding small-house sites, the Red Willow Chacoan great house and associated great kiva and at least seven surrounding small-house sites, and a...

  • Santa Clara Pueblo’s Rights Protection and Tribal Historic Preservation Office’s Involvement in the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project and Other Regional Projects (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Benji Chavarria. Danny Naranjo. Jesse Gutierrez. Isaac Gutierrez.

    This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Santa Clara Pueblo people are indelibly tied to the land, animals, air, and waters of the American Southwest. Since the formation of Santa Clara Pueblo’s Right’s Protection office a few decades ago, and more recently their Tribal Historic Preservation Office in 2014, their...