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Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Foundations for Cultural Affiliation

This report summarizes information on the prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic foundations for the cultural affiliation of burials and associated funerary objects from Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in Casa Grande, Arizona. This study was commissioned by the National Park Service’s Applied Ethnography Program in Washington, D.C., to identify American Indian tribes potentially affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary objects from Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. This study is one of the responses by the National Park Service to the requirements stipulated in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990. The report should provide sufficient criteria for determining potentially affiliated individuals and tribes to be contacted for future consultation.
This research determined the following Native American ethnic groups are affiliated to the national monument: Akimel O'odham, Tohono O’Odham, Zuni, Hopi, and Maricopa.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/271217
Date January 1995
CreatorsZedeno, Maria Nieves, Stoffle, Richard W.
ContributorsBureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona
PublisherBureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeReport
SourceUniversity of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections

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