The Pueblo of Acoma’s Cultural Inheritance and Archaeological Partnership in “The Lands Between” of Southeastern Utah

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Amidst the pandemic, the authors (a group of individuals from the Pueblo of Acoma, academics, and non-profit organizations) planned and gathered in southeastern Utah to begin a project in 2021 to explore and strengthen Acoma’s deep and inalienable connections to the north. We soon found that the process of building meaningful and long-lasting partnerships was as important, if not more so, than our work itself. This poster details the steps we took in 2022 to continue to build a respectful, meaningful, and lasting community-based partnership: to facilitate Acoma’s pilgrimage to their ancestral homes near the place of their emergence, and to work with archaeologists and land managers to ensure continued access and protection of Acoma’s cultural inheritance established by the First Ancestors. This work contributes to Pueblo’s goals of building a healthy and sustainable future for coming generations.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37163.0