Successes and Challenges of Documenting Traditional Cultural Properties/Places

Summary

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

Documenting traditional cultural properties/places (TCPs) have become much more commonplace in the world of cultural resource management. Increasingly, more and more tribes and descendant communities across the United States have successfully identified, documented, and in some cases, nominated TCPs to the National Register of Historic Places. Although TCPs have created a useful framework in which to identify and record multivalent, complex, and dynamic cultural places, there are still many challenges when working to translate tribal concepts of place into the Section 106 process of the National Historic Preservation Act. This paper uses several case studies to unpack and discuss some of those challenges that have arisen during the TCP identification and documentation process, and presents some strategies used in the face of those challenges.

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): 37476.0