Crafting the Nomination for the Cornplanter Grant TCP, Warren County, Pennsylvania
Author(s): Chris Espenshade
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the ""We Especially Love the Land We Live On": Documenting Native American Traditional Cultural Properties of the Historic Period" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The Cornplanter Grant was the first TCP nominated in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issued the Grant to Chief Cornplanter of the Senecas in the 1790s, but the lands had been occupied back into the Paleoindian times. The nomination was successful, and the Grant was listed under Criteria A, B, and D. The crafting of the document faced certain difficulties including: selecting boundaries; winnowing the archival and archaeological information to a manageable level; addressing post-inundation integrity; negotiating Seneca Nation politics; and working with the National Park Service template. Ultimately, the lack of a Pennsylvania precedent did not hinder the development and approval of the nomination.
Cite this Record
Crafting the Nomination for the Cornplanter Grant TCP, Warren County, Pennsylvania. Chris Espenshade. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 448945)
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Keywords
General
Nomination
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Seneca
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TCP
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Paleoindian through Historic Indian
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 124