Fort Lewis College

Center of Southwest Studies

& department of anthropology

1000 Rim Drive

Durango, CO  81301

 

Two-Day Lecture Series:

October 18-19, 2001

 

Archaeology that Matters:

Collaborations and Ethics in the Americas*

 

and

 

Not Just One Story: Collaborations in Cultural Research and Interpretation on Public Lands

 

Free and open to Fort Lewis College students and the public

Seminars will take place in the Lyceum (Room 120), Center of Southwest Studies

Free parking in lots N, O, and Q (or buy $2 tickets from machines located in front of Sage Hall & football field)

 

 

Sponsored by:

Department of Anthropology

Center of Southwest Studies
General Education Council

Office of Community Services

 

Funded by:

Colorado Commission on Higher Education

Program of Excellence Grant to the Department of Anthropology

and

The Colorado Coal Field Archaeological Project

 

This is the first of many public seminars held at the new Center of Southwest Studies that will focus on the evaluation, preservation and interpretation of cultural resources on public lands. This seminar will bring together experts whose fields include South America, the American Southwest, Colorado, and Hawai’i. Participants are encouraged to join in discussions regarding collaborations among local peoples, including Native Americans, and public agencies.

 

* “Archaeology that Matters” is also offered as an Anthropology 190/390 2-hour Enrichment Course for pass/fail credit during the Fall 2001 term.  For details contact the course instructor, Dr. Susan Riches, at 247-7500 or riches_s@fortlewis.edu

 

 

Day 1:  Archaeology that Matters: Collaborations

and Ethics in the Americas

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 (Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum):

  A.M.

8:45-9:00         Welcome and opening remarks, Dr. Kathleen Fine-Dare, Professor of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College

 

9:00-9:30         Dr. John Isaacson, Archaeology at Los Alamos National Labs

Cultural Resources Team Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory

 

9:30-10:00       Dr. Dean Saitta,  Historical Archaeology at the Ludlow Massacre Memorial”

                        Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver

 

10:00-10:15     Break                                      

 

10:15-10:45     Dr. Robert Preucel, “Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt

                        Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of North American Archaeology

                        University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology             

 

11:00-12:00     Brown Bag lunch with Anthropology students (Anthropology Club) CSWS Conference Room

                        Informal panel discussion:  “Preparing yourself for a future in archaeology”: 

Mona Charles, Philip Duke, Clark Erickson, John Isaacson, Robert Preucel,

Susan Riches, Dean Saitta, and Jim Zeidler.

P.M.

12:30-1:15       Dr. Clark Erickson: “Precolumbian Landscapes and Applied Archaeology in the Andes

                        Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of the American Section

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

 

1:30-2:15         Dr. Jim Zeidler: “Doing Archaeology on the Coast of Ecuador: a 20-year Retrospective

Associate Director of Cultural Resources, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands

(CEMML) Colorado State University

 

2:30-3:30         Dr. Clark Erickson: “Native Peoples and the Environment: An Interdisciplinary Course

(Presentation of  an innovative freshman level course offered at the University of Pennsylvania)

                        (Co-sponsored by the Fort Lewis College General Education Council)

 

7:00 p.m.          * Collaborative Keynote Address:  Interpreting the Sand Creek Massacre Site

                        Richard N. Ellis, Professor of Southwest Studies and History, Fort Lewis College,

                        Alexa Roberts, Project Manager, Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site and

                        William Walks Along, Head of the Northern Cheyenne Sand Creek Office and former Northern Cheyenne Chairman

 

8:45 p.m.          Reception for visiting scholars in Center of Southwest Studies

 

 

Day 2:  “Not Just One Story”: Collaborations in Cultural Research

and Interpretation on Public Lands

 

FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 19, Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum

A.M.

8:15-8:30         Opening remarks and welcome

 

8:30-9:00         Lou Ann Jacobson: Creating a New National Monument in the Southwest:

Issues and Opportunities with Canyons of the Ancients

Monument Manager, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument

 

9:00-9:30         Dr. John Isaacson: Whose History is This? Preservation and Public Interpretation

of the Manhattan Project Buildings at Los Alamos National Laboratory”

Cultural Resources Team Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory

                                   

9:30-10:00       Break

 

10:00-10:30     Dr. Dean Saitta: Toward an Emancipatory Archaeology: Contributions

from the Colorado Coal Field War Archaeological Project”

                        Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver                   

 

10:30-11:00     Dr. Clark Erickson: Applied Archaeology and Multiple Public Interests

in the Bolivian Amazon

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of the American Section

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

 

11:00-11:15     Break

 

11:15-11:45     Dr. James A. Zeidler:  “Globalism and ‘Heritage Dissonance’: Managing Conflict in the Interpretation and Use of Heritage Resources and Landscapes”

Associate Director of  Cultural Resources, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML), Colorado State University

 

11:45-12:45     Lunch break

 

1:00-1:30         Dr. Art Gomez:   El Chamizal: Profile of a Displaced  Hispano Community                  

Southwest Regional Historian, National Park Service (and FLC graduate)

 

1:30-2:30         The Kotyiti Research Project: Collaborative History and Archaeology at an

Ancestral Cochiti Community a working dialogue between:

                        Dr. Joseph Henry Suina (Cochiti) Associate Professor of Education, University of New Mexico (and FLC graduate)

                                                                        and

                        Dr. Robert Preucel, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of North

                                                American Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology

                                                and Anthropology

 

2:30-2:45         Break                                      

 

2:45-3:45         Panel on Native Perspectives on Interpretive Issues (with audience participation)

                        (Participants to be announced; including Corina Tsinnajinnie and Mylia Ami)

 

3:45-4:00         Concluding remarks.