Protecting Ancestral Pojoaque Places

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Protecting Pueblo of Pojoaque ancestral sites is a challenge. Inside our exterior boundaries are non-native encroachments. Cultural properties are often located within these checker board properties and more often than not have significant cultural meaning to the Pueblo’s culture and history. Tangible and intangible cultural resources are everywhere on our lands and do not stop at today’s boundaries. Retaining the history and protecting sites for which we have no access can negatively reflect on the Pueblo’s culture and history and can be demeaning to relationships with our non-native neighbors. And sharing our land base with non-native neighbors is increasingly challenging-- Off road and recreational vehicles, horses, hikers, and domesticated grazing animals in the past and present have had significant negative impacts on cultural properties. How do we conserve and protect cultural properties within the exterior boundaries of the Pueblo of Pojoaque while maintaining a good neighbor policy?

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico

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Abstract Id(s): 23662