Research Protocols for Documenting Hopi Traditional Properties

Summary

Over millennia, Hopi people have established a rich landscape of significant places throughout the American Southwest and beyond. The significance of many of these places is rooted in Hopi traditional beliefs and practices and they are vital components to the cultural identity of the tribe. The Hopi Cultural Preservation Office (HCPO) and their research partners have established protocols for documenting Hopi traditional cultural places and incorporating this information into the regulatory framework of the National Historic Preservation Act. To this end, established protocols include: identifying appropriate research participants to help identify traditional cultural properties and their contexts of significance; completing place-based research to identify all contributing elements of the property; following best practices in documentation, review, and confidentiality of cultural information. Recent research conducted by the HCPO and Anthropological Research, LLC, identified Hopi traditional cultural properties within the Navajo Generating Station and Kayenta Mine Complex, centered on Black Mesa in northeastern Arizona. This reserach helped to refine established protocols and illuminate continued challenges associated with documenting Hopi traditional cultural properties.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20080