Community Outreach in Cultural Preservation

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Outreach and Education: Examples of Approaches and Strategies from the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Historic Preservation Office places a high priority on education and public outreach. Looking both within our organization and to outside agencies, the Tribe’s Historic Preservation staff places emphasis on addressing past “takings” and harm the discipline of archaeology has been responsible for in order to create culturally informed practices. In order to broaden awareness within our partner agencies and institutions of the significance of cultural understanding, we have implemented a range of trainings, discussions, and other activities. This programming has taken the form of informational outreach tables, agency specific trainings, youth camping trips, archaeology demonstration days, and more. Our office continues to develop new ways to reach out to a variety of communities in order to better create lasting understanding of issues that we engages on. In this session, I will illustrate the successes that we have had with our outreach and lay out our strategies for future engagement opportunities.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Outreach and Education: Examples of Approaches and Strategies from the Pacific Northwest   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36792.0