NATIONAL PARK SERVICE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE MATTERS NEWS OF THE NATION'S DIVERSE CULTURAL HERITAGE Hovenweep National Monument and Hopi Foundation Archeological Documentation and Preservation Workshop INSIDE THIS ISSUE Eric J. Brunnemann and preservation. The fourth week the Southeast Utah Group, which Southeast Utah Group, National Park Service Conferences was dedicated to meeting with includes Hovenweep National Mon­ planned, p. 23 Hopi tribal elders to review the ument, entered into a Cooperative Beginning October 15, 2001 and Contributors program and tour the sites that Agreement with the Hopi Found­ sought for research continuing to November 9, 2001, were documented and stabilized. ation, a 501(c)(3) organization. project p. 23 Vanishing Treasures archeologists, The four-week long program of The Vanishing Treasures masonry specialists, photographers, Save America's on-site documentation, stabiliza­ Initiative, "a grass-roots program Treasures grants, p. 9 computer specialists, and the entire tion, and consultation is the result designed to address both the devas­ Hovenweep National Monument National Register of two parallel rehabilitation tating destruction of...irreplaceable listings, p. 11 staff, participated in a workshop programs: the NPS Vanishing historic and prehistoric structures with Hopi masonry specialists from Publications Treasures Initiative, and the Hopi as well as the impending loss of of note, p. 22 Greasewood, Coyote, and Reed Foundation Clan House Restor­ preservation expertise," was Clans, under the guidance of Hopi ation Program. In early 2000, SEE HOPI, PAGE 3 Reed Clan Mother Eilene Ran­ the parks and monuments of dolph from Bacavi. This workshop marked the beginning of a mutual assistance program with the Hopi Foundation, Hopi Nation, and National Park Service. Three weeks of the workshop were devoted to documentation Find out more about this logo on page 5, the National Underground Network to Freedom article. HERITAGE The structures at the Hovenweep National Monument will benefit from the traditional knowledge systems shared with park preservationists during the four-week Documentation and Preservation workshop. Dalton Taylor (left) with NPS MATTERS Vanishing Treasures Conservator Lloyd Masayumptewa (right) confer on the Cajon Unit, Hovenweep Historical JUNE 2002 Monument. Photo courtesy of Eric J. Brunnemann. HERITAGE MATTERS JUNE 2002 culture, as well as promote IMPS ACTIVITIES tolerance and understanding among people. This past February, Lowell NHP sponsored a public forum to dis­ cuss the trip and the many resulting Understanding Over the past year, staff members initiatives. Park, city, and state offi­ and Preserving of Lowell National Historical Park cials as well as educators, media, the Heritage of in Lowell, Massachusetts, have community activists and interested been involved in an intensive pro­ Cambodian Americans citizens filled the auditorium of the gram aimed at making new and Park's visitor center to learn more deeper connections with members Audrey Ambrosino about the trip and to discuss plans Lowell National Historical Park of Lowell's Cambodian community. for the future. Superintendent Erin Sheehan In June 2001, a delegation from Patrick McCrary and Lowell City Lowell National Historical Park Lowell visited Cambodia. The Councilor Rithy Uong moderated group included civic, educational, the event, Uong, who immigrated business, and community leaders, 20 years ago, is the first Cambodian including Lowell NHP Superinten­ to hold public office in the United dent Patrick C. McCrary. The trip States. represented an effort by Lowell All speakers touched on the leaders to better understand the importance of tolerance, cultural complex culture, history, and her­ understanding, patience, pride, and itage of nearly one-third of Lowell's sensitivity in the city of Lowell. citizens—first and second genera­ They praised the park for its inter­ tion Khmer- est, level of involvement and com­ Americans. mitment, and pledged their support Prior to for future collaborative ventures. their arrival Currently, the park offers space to in United the nationally recognized Angkor States, most Dance Troupe, supports community Cambodian events like the Southeast Asian immigrants Water Festival and the Lowell Folk were subject Festival, and is currently hosting an to the bar­ exhibit documenting Southeast barous rule of Asian Dance Traditions. the Khmer Rouge In April of 2002, Superintendent and its leader Pol Pot. McCrary was presented with a Since the June 2001 trip, Community Appreciation Award numerous meetings have taken from the Cambodian American place to plan educational and cul­ League of Lowell. tural exchange programs, economic development initiatives, and a pos­ For more information, contact Audrey Ambrosino at [email protected]. sible museum or center detailing immigration based on human rights issues. According to Superinten­ dent McCrary, such a center would be a place for Lowell's numerous ethnic groups and immigrant com­ munities to share their history and Young members of the Angkor Dance Troupe perform at the Lowell Folk Festival in July of 2001. Photo courtesy of Kevin Harkins. page 2 HOPI, FROM PAGE 1 Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, Biscayne National established in 1993. It is comprised and the Executive Director of the Park and the Stories of over 40 NPS units in the South­ Hopi Foundation joined the Hopi that Lie Beneath west. The initiative has three pri­ masonry specialists at Hovenweep. mary purposes: National Park Service and Hopi Alan Spears members reviewed the program and National Parks Conservation Association 1) funding emergency stabilization then conducted site visits. Tribal projects to record and repair elders visited springs and petro- When Biscayne National structures in immediate danger glyph sites throughout the monu­ Monument was expanded to of destruction, ment and discussed clan affiliations 181,500 acres and designated a national park in 1980, the objective 2) replacement of an aging work­ and Hopi cultural prehistory. was to "protect a rare combination force of stone masons and mas­ Based on this workshop, tribal of terrestrial and undersea life... ter carpenters whose architec­ representatives from both the Hopi and to provide an outstanding spot tural skills will be lost if not Foundation and the Hopi Cultural for recreation and relaxation." To passed to a new generation of Preservation expressed their desire this day, Biscayne remains a vast craft persons, and to see the program expand beyond Hovenweep National Monument harbor of clear blue waters, multi- 3) moving the initiative from an and asked NPS to consider expand­ textured coral, and a dazzlingly emergency response to the loss ing the initiative to other ancestral colorful array of fish. But as the of historic fabric, to a proactive Puebloan parks and monuments in majority of the park (96%) is preservation program. the Southwest. There are plans underwater, so too is a large part underway for a 2002 program and of the story of Biscayne hidden The Hopi Foundation is a non­ suggestions of a formal visit to from plain sight. Omitted, lost, or profit, grassroots Native American Hopi itself by NPS archeologists. forgotten amidst the tributes natu­ organization. The Foundation's Both agencies are considering ralists, historians, and interpreters, mission is to foster self-reliance reciprocal job opportunities in have paid to the beauty of the reefs and a sense of pride, recognize preservation as a venue for pre­ and keys, are the people of ability, pass on learning, and give serving ancestral Puebloan culture. Biscayne, many of African descent, back to the community. Through As both NPS and Hopi become who populated the region and various programs, the Foundation more acquainted with each other, it formed a rudimentary, hardscrab- seeks to preserve and rehabilitate is anticipated that our mutual ble existence for themselves. historical Hopi architecture. It also interests will continue to build To be a person of color in the acknowledges that the traditional strong relationships. United States is, often, to have a skills employed in architectural different sense of geography. preservation are gradually being For more information about the Hopi Foundation, contact Barbara Poley at 928/734-2380, or visit Tangible things such as waterfalls lost. This gradual loss of tradition­ their website, http://www.hopifoundation.org/. and interstates are known entities, al building skills suggest that tradi­ For more information about the Hopi Cultural but sometimes less significant than tional activities, integral v/ith such Preservation Office, contact Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma at 928/734-3000, or visit the web­ the knowledge of safe harbors and structures, might not be passing site, http://www.nau.edu/-hcpo-p/. For more places one "ought not go." Our from generation to generation. information about the Southeast Utah, contact Eric Brunnemann at 435/719-2134, email: national parklands too, are a part In the first week, Hopi partici­ [email protected]. Visit the Vanishing of this alternative landscape. pants toured regional archeological Treasures Initiative webpage at Determining how some people of http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/vt/vt.htm. sites, and received information color have historically used and about the techniques, methods, viewed these places can tell us vol­ and recording skills used by NPS umes about our collective history archeologists to document archi­ as Americans—where