March 2004 - Society for California Archaeology
March 2004 - Society for California Archaeology
March 2004 - Society for California Archaeology
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News and Announcements<br />
- Atkins urges members of tribal councils and partnership<br />
agencies to continue supporting cultural programs, not<br />
only financially, but always with the idea of preserving the<br />
future of unique indigenous peoples.<br />
- Atkins encourages all tribes to establish a cultural<br />
protection program. Don’t let this important task fall to an<br />
assistant that works in another program who doesn’t have a<br />
lot of time to dedicate to the protection of the culture and<br />
history of your tribe.<br />
- The in<strong>for</strong>mation in this article may give the impression<br />
that the process to establish a successful Cultural<br />
Department and Tribal Historic Preservation Program<br />
seems quick and easy, but as you can see, the success is<br />
owed to the many people that believed that it was<br />
important to the Wiyot people that the Tribe have a voice<br />
in protecting their culture and history.<br />
About the author: Marnie Atkins serves as the Cultural Director<br />
and Tribal Historic Preservation Officer <strong>for</strong> the Table Bluff<br />
Reservation - Wiyot Tribe. She is a tribal member and previously<br />
served on the tribal council. She presented this topic on October 11,<br />
2003 in Watsonville at the 18 th Annual Cali<strong>for</strong>nia Indian<br />
Conference, <strong>for</strong> the symposium “Cali<strong>for</strong>nia Tribal Programs in<br />
CRM” organized by SCA Native American Programs Committee<br />
Chairperson Janet Eidsness.<br />
New ACHP Web Page About Organization<br />
of the Office of Federal Agency Programs<br />
In response to a number of requests, the ACHP has<br />
developed an expanded discussion of the new organizational<br />
structure of the Office of Federal Agency Programs (OFAP)<br />
<strong>for</strong> our website (attached). Using a Frequently Asked<br />
Questions <strong>for</strong>mat, the web page provides in<strong>for</strong>mation on how<br />
our Section 106 work is delegated among the staff, how best<br />
to reach our staff, new services we are hoping to provide<br />
Section 106 users in the field, and in<strong>for</strong>mation regarding the<br />
role of our newly created Federal agency liaison positions.<br />
We hope this in<strong>for</strong>mation will make it easier <strong>for</strong> you to work<br />
with our office. Any questions or suggestions about how this<br />
website could be further improved would be welcome.<br />
Please link to the following web page <strong>for</strong> further in<strong>for</strong>mation.<br />
http://www.achp.gov/ofap-faq.html<br />
Language is Life: 11th Annual Stabilizing<br />
Indigenous Languages Conference at<br />
University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia at Berkeley<br />
June 11-13, <strong>2004</strong><br />
Hosted by The Advocates <strong>for</strong> Indigenous Cali<strong>for</strong>nia<br />
Language Survival and the Survey of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia and Other<br />
Indian Languages (Department of Linguistics, University of<br />
Cali<strong>for</strong>nia at Berkeley)<br />
The Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Steering<br />
committee invites interested individuals and groups to give<br />
presentations at SILC this year, either in the <strong>for</strong>m of a 15-<br />
minute talk (or less), a 1 1/2 hour workshop, or else to join<br />
one of our suggested panels, which will be 1 1/2 hours in<br />
length. Suggested panels include:<br />
Master-apprentice programs<br />
Immersion schools<br />
Archives and intellectual property rights<br />
Developing and using new writing systems<br />
Revitalizing languages without speakers<br />
We will also make time and space <strong>for</strong> the showing of films<br />
on language loss and language revitalization, if you have<br />
anything you’d like to show. See either of the following<br />
websites <strong>for</strong> the registration and presentation <strong>for</strong>ms<br />
www.aicls.org or http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/<br />
SIL9brochure.html<br />
Prof. Leanne Hinton<br />
Chair, Dept. of Linguistics<br />
1203 Dwinelle Hall<br />
University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia<br />
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650<br />
SWAA 75th Annual Conference<br />
April 15, 16, 17, <strong>2004</strong><br />
Jan English-Lueck, President<br />
Southwestern Anthropological Association<br />
I would like to invite you to the 75th Jubilee meeting of<br />
the Southwestern Anthropological Association. SWAA is the<br />
oldest regional association in the West, and has gone from<br />
being a unit of the AAA to an independent organization<br />
consisting of professionals, academics and students from<br />
Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. Over the<br />
years the organization has reinvented itself to serve the<br />
various constituencies of academic anthropology.<br />
Anthropology itself has changed. This year, the President-<br />
Elect, Margaret Graham of Santa Clara University, and I<br />
would like to extend our invitation to all anthropologists,<br />
whether they are faculty, graduate students, senior<br />
undergraduates, emeriti and alumni. We are eager to include<br />
anthropologists who are not employed in academia. We<br />
encourage you to pass this invitation on to other<br />
anthropologists who might be interested.<br />
San Jose State University’s Department of Anthropology<br />
is co-hosting, along with Santa Clara University, the 75th<br />
Annual Conference of the Southwestern Anthropological<br />
Association on April 15, 16, 17, <strong>2004</strong>. The conference theme<br />
is “Making it Work: Global and Local Applied