Seventeen American Indian tribes having traditional prehistoric or historic ties to lands within and in the vicinity of the NTS study area were invited to participate in this study. Their participation was in keeping with a Native American consultation process that has been developed over a period of seventeen years and has involved more than sixty tribes.
Indian people participating in this study were asked to identify and make recommendations about cultural resources that are potentially impacted by the underground testing activities on Pahute and Rainier Mesas, on the Nevada Test Site (NTS). This report focuses on information collected on both ethnobiology and ethnoarchaeology. Data was collected through on-site interviews with officially appointed tribal representatives and through mail surveys.
This study was conducted in compliance with the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) of 1978 (PL 95 -341) and was in keeping with Department of Energy (DOE) directives to be responsive to this and other laws regarding cultural resources located on DOE facilities. This study built upon previous Native American cultural resource consultation studies conducted on the Nevada Test Site.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/276092 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Stoffle, Richard W., Evans, Michael J., Halmo, David B., Dufort, Molly E., Fulfrost, Brian K. |
| Contributors | Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona |
| Publisher | Desert Research Institute Technical Report No. 84 |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Report |
| Source | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections |
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