Heritage Management in Nunatsiavut: Policy in Action

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The heritage landscape in Nunatsiavut, and in the north more generally, is changing rapidly and in ways that demand changes in how we approach heritage management. Nunatsiavut holds 7,000 years of human history, and the importance of protecting and promoting this history is attested to in the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement, which confers considerable authority, but also considerable flexibility, over archaeological and cultural resources. The Nunatsiavut Government is relatively young, and heritage policy is still being written. Recent developments and significant changes in the fields of archaeology, collections management, and repatriation have been guiding our recent policy work. We discuss how we are striving to build heritage policies that are robust enough to encompass the full breadth of the Nunatsiavut Government’s legislated authority, but also flexible and resilient enough to respond to the logistical challenges common to many remote northern communities.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39449.0