Traditional Cultural Properties of Four Tribes: The Fence Lake Mine Project - Volume II

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Volume II

4. T. J. Ferguson and Eric Polingyouma. "Sio Onga: An Ethnohistory of Hopi Use of the Zuni Salt Lake." [Confidential Report--Restricted Access]

5. Alfred E. Dittert, Jr. and Ward Alan Minge. "An Ethnohistoric Account of the Traditional Cultural Properties Identified by the Acoma Tribe in and Adjacent to the SRP Fence Lake Mine

Project Area."

6. Jean Ann Mercer. "Fence Lake Coal Mine Project: Potential Impacts to Traditional Cultural Properties of the Ramah Navajo."

7. E. Richard Hart and T. J. Ferguson. "The Fence Lake Mine Project: Conclusions."

8. Appendix of Meetings.

In 1991 the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP), a non-profit, public utility based in the state of Arizona, contracted with the Institute of the NorthAmerican West (INA W), a non-profit educational institution, to conduct ethnohistorical research pertaining to Native American traditional cultural properties that may be impacted by the development of the Fence Lake Mine Project. The Native American groups that were the focus of research included the Acoma Tribe, the Hopi Tribe, the Ramah Chapter of the Navajo Nation, and the Zuni Tribe. The Fence Lake Mine Project entails a proposed coal mine in western New Mexico, with an associated transportation corridor for conveying coal to the Coronado Generating Plant in eastern Arizona. The proposed SRP coal mine encompasses a tract of land approximately 17,600 acres in size, located in an area that surrounds Cerro Prieto, a prominent volcanic cone about nine and one half miles northeast of Zuni Salt Lake (Hart and Othole Figure 1). The proposed mine is near the tiny community of Fence Lake, New Mexico, from which it derives its name.

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