Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. MDT

Online Webinar

When NAGPRA was enacted in 1990, it empowered tribes to claim their ancestors and cultural patrimony. It also pushed forward a movement and the direct descendants of those People began the takeover of the interpretation. It has been over 30 years now and the total tribal control of those resources never really came to fruition, minus a few exceptions. An amendment to the California Environmental Quality Act, Assembly Bill 52, has taken empowering tribes to a new level and has led to a rebirth of that original movement. Along with biologists, geologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, etc., tribes are now at the table while creating mitigation plans to impacted resources. These new Tribal Cultural Resources not only include archaeological sites, features and objects, but also tribal stories, landscapes, medicine collection areas, hills, caves, waterways, etc. The impact has not only added to the interpretation of archaeological data, but some tribes have created their own CRM enterprises to collect, analyze, and curate the material culture of their ancestors directly. This presentation explores how the rebirth of this old paradigm has impacted archaeology, tribe vs. archaeologist relations and the resources themselves.

This webinar is suitable for lifelong learners from high school students to adults; this lesson is free.

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