March 2004 - Society for California Archaeology

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8 News and Announcements giving papers on their work at various sessions. Just prior to the meetings, a CASSP advanced workshop on flintknapping will be held from 1:00 to 5:00, on Wednesday afternoon, March 17. It will feature archaeologists/ flintknappers Tim Gross and Bob Yohe. Only CASSP volunteers are eligible to attend. There is no fee, but registration is required; contact Beth Padon by phone (562-432- 1801) or e-mail (bpadon@discoveryworks.com) or regular mail (Discovery Works Inc., 235 East Broadway, Suite 980, Long Beach CA 90802) Please register by March 10, because space is limited. Participants in the advanced workshop and other CASSP volunteers are encouraged to attend the opening reception of the SCA meetings on Wednesday evening. After this reception, CASSP volunteers and other SCA members who are interested in site stewardship are invited to an informal and sponsored pizza dinner at the Riverside Brewing Company. Pizza will be provided by Discovery Works, but you will have to buy your own beverages. The restaurant is located at 3397 Seventh Street (Mission Inn Avenue), which is two blocks from the Mission Inn and four blocks from the convention center. Avocational Committee Jerry Dudley & Myra Herrmann Well it’s that time of year looking forward to the annual SCA meeting. Mark your calendars for the dates in March, 17 through 20. Also our annual Avocational Society meeting will be a luncheon on Friday March 19 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. This is a great time for the societies to get together and discuss problems and share information about our many activities. Please let us know if you will be attending this session. Announcements Table Bluff Reservation-Wiyot Tribe Establishes Tribal Historic Preservation Office Marnie Atkins The Table Bluff Reservation - Wiyot Tribe (Wiyot Tribe) has worked hard the past year and a half to establish and maintain a Cultural Department and Tribal Historic Preservation Program. Its success is founded upon the support of tribal members, the tribal council, other tribes (locally and far away), and numerous people and agencies. The reservation for the Wiyot Tribe is found in Humboldt County, California, twenty minutes south of Eureka. The mission of the Cultural Department and Tribal Historic Preservation Office is to Protect, Promote, and Perpetuate Wiyot culture and history. Cultural Department Before the Cultural Department was established, the employees of the Environmental Department were handling cultural resource protection. Due to the budget constraints of EPA funding, the Environmental Department staff could not dedicate sufficient time to this important goal. They also found that they were working the hours of a full time person, and the outlook that more and more consultation and protection would be needed was on the horizon. Our Treasurer and Environmental Director attended an environmental meeting in Reno in early 2002 where there was a presentation by an Oregon tribe about a successful tribal cultural resource management program. At that time, they realized that with the right management and support of the tribal council and membership, we too could have a designated person that would give voice to the Wiyot Tribe’s cultural resource protection and management issues. After the meeting in Reno, the Environmental Director spoke to our tribal council about what was learned at the meeting and proposed the idea of hiring a staff person. Initially, the Environmental Director suggested that the person hired would fall under the Tribe’s Environmental Department in regards to work assignment, direction, and supervision. However, the tribal council thought that if a cultural program were to be successful, the person hired would need to have the ability to speak on important issues of protection and repatriation, and provide consultation on behalf of the Tribe. Therefore, the tribal council formed a separate department and created the Cultural Director position. In May 2002, Marnie Atkins was hired as the Cultural Director. With the designation of a new department within the Tribe comes the difficult task of finding money to secure a position. The council asked the fiscal department to look in our budget to see if there was anyway a position could be funded. The Fiscal Manager found money in our General Fund that could be reallocated to fund the Cultural Director position. However, the funding would only last the rest of 2002, and the incumbent would need to find other sources of funding to secure the future of a successful program. In October of last year, we received a Revenue Sharing Trust Fund (RSTF) check. As a way to fund the Cultural Department, Atkins submitted a draft budget to the tribal council that listed some of the needs of the department. The tribal council approved $28,200.00 to fund the Cultural Department from the RSTF check the Tribe had received. This was a tremendous help to the program then and now. SCA Newsletter 38(1)
9 News and Announcements The Cultural Department was established to educate, protect, promote, and perpetuate the Wiyot culture and history. The Department works in important areas such as: repatriation; reviewing, commenting and consulting with our local, state, and federal agencies regarding projects in our ancestral lands; supporting legislation to better protect and aid tribes; establishing classes, such as a language and basket weaving, for tribal members; negotiating memorandums of understanding or agreement with agencies to insure adequate and continued access to lands for traditional cultural practices or gathering of materials for basket making, medicines, or subsistence; overseeing the cultural monitoring program; and “other duties as assigned.” Currently, Atkins is the only full time employee in the department, in addition to six part time cultural monitors. The cultural monitoring program is a tool for the Tribe to protect or relocate important culturally significant sites. It has had a slow start, but increasingly agencies are calling us to request monitors on work sites where excavation will occur. We are continually working on county, state, and federal projects, with more and more monitoring of private industry projects. In January 2002, the SCA and the Tribe partnered to present a Cultural Resource Training session. This session was instrumental in training tribal members from several different tribes, while establishing working relationships with many of the federal and state agency representatives that presented and attended. Some of the subjects discussed were: the general history of cultural resource management laws; burial protection; repatriation; records and archival research; and monitoring. Field visits to culturally significant sites were incorporated into the session to encourage stewardship as part of cultural resource management. Tribal Historic Preservation Program During the summer of 2002, we began the process to submit our Tribal Historic Preservation Program Plan to the National Park Service. This was a convoluted process because there wasn’t, and still isn’t, any clear application or plan submittal process. While writing the Tribal Historic Preservation Program Plan to be submitted to the NPS, Atkins looked to the Yurok Tribe’s Tribal Heritage Preservation Officer, Dr. Thomas Gates, for guidance, help, and a good sounding board. He was, and still is, a very patient and gracious mentor. Especially, when she sought input or had questions about the THPO plan process. Section 101(d)(2) of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 creates a provision that tribes can assume the functions of a State Historic Preservation Officer on tribal lands. A Tribal Historic Preservation Officer is a person who is officially designated by a federally recognized tribe to direct a program that has been approved by the National Park Service that assumes the SHPO’s functions on tribal lands. In other words, by having a plan approved, the tribe assumes management of their cultural resources on their tribal lands. THPOs are able to give more emphasis and importance to protecting valuable cultural resources of the tribe by combining traditional beliefs and practices with current methods when documenting and managing cultural properties. Our Tribal Historic Preservation Program Plan was approved on October 5, 2002. We are the 3 rd tribe in the state of California, the Yurok and Timbisha Shoshone Tribes being the other two, and the 33 rd tribe to achieve THPO status. If your tribe is interested in gaining THPO status a good place to start is with the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers. They can be found on the web at www.nathpo.org. In the future … - We will be working with one of our basket weavers to start a basket class to teach interested adults and eventually those adults will teach our children. - A language committee has been established and meets regularly to discuss how to find and acquire funding to hire or consult with a person to help us create a curriculum to teach children and adults our language. - We are investigating the logistics of building a cultural center on the reservation. This facility would house the cultural department, interpretative center, tribal archives, classes, and enlarge our tribal library. - In the future, we would like to hire at least one full time cultural monitor and an assistant. However, with our plans for growth we expect to hire more staff to work in the tribal archives, cultural center, and cultural monitoring program. - We would like to upgrade our technology to create a database of culturally significant sites and to create and document oral history, photos, and important family and tribal papers. Now for some thoughts to leave you with …. - In the past year and five months, the department has grown rapidly. It seems that the more people that know the Tribe has a Cultural Department and a Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, the more they consult with us. - As we all know, tribes often have little funding, and employees of the tribal government often wear many hats and juggle several projects at a time. Often, tribal staff performs the same work and more, that private industry and federally funded counter parts do for higher pay and less responsibilities. Keep your head up and don’t get discouraged. SCA Newsletter 38(1)
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