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This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.
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I can see why you posted this. However, the situation with the kind of sites we look at here is a bit different. Control over the resources is not in the hands of the descendant communities who claim them, for the most part - unlike what the video describes for southeast Asia. There has been some progress in involving those communities - for example, Mass. Division of Conservation Resources has recently adopted a policy of consultation with the tribes prior to logging operations in lands under their jurisdiction. The Narragansetts are very much involved in the preservation of Manitou Hassanash in Hopkinton RI. And one of the problems with this is Indian politics - there is a lot of acrimony between the federally recognized tribes and the unrecognized as to who gets to speak for the monuments.
ReplyDeleteDo you think there is cognitive dissonance with coastal tribes having jurisdiction over relics from the inland tribes?
ReplyDeletePotentially, yes. And it is because the coastal tribes in New England are the ones which have obtained Federal recognition. So it's not so much a lowland/upland problem as a Federal recognition problem. I know that the basis for the Narragansetts' claim over all of Massachusetts out to the Connecticut River (the Mashpee make similar claims) is that there was commerce and interaction among all of the tribes prior to European contact - which is undoubtedly true - but this can work out to denying indigenous people who identify with the inland tribes voice in preserving their own monuments.
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