The Natural History Museum initiated this sign-on letter concerning the destruction of Native American burial grounds and sacred sites by the Dakota Access Pipeline company. If you are an archaeologists, anthropologist, historian or museum worker you are invited to add your name by emailing info@thenaturalhistorymuseum.org.
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To President Obama, the United States Department of Justice, Department of the Interior, and the Army Corps of Engineers:
As archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and museum workers committed to responsible stewardship, we are invested in the preservation and interpretation of archaeological and cultural heritage for the common good. We join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in denouncing the recent destruction of ancient burial sites, places of prayer and other significant cultural artifacts sacred to the Lakota and Dakota people.
On Saturday, September 3, 2016, the company behind the contentious Dakota Access Pipeline project bulldozed land containing Native American burial grounds, grave markers, and artifacts–including ancient cairns and stone prayer rings. The construction crews, flanked by private security and canine squads, arrived just hours after the Standing Rock Sioux tribal lawyers disclosed the location of the recently discovered site in federal court filings.
Former tribal historic preservation officer Tim Mentz called the discovery of the site “one of the most significant archeological finds in North Dakota in many years.” “This demolition is devastating,” Tribal Chairman David Archambault II said. “These grounds are the resting places of our ancestors. The ancient cairns and stone prayer rings there cannot be replaced. In one day, our sacred land has been turned into hollow ground.”
We are familiar with the long history of desecration of Indigenous People’s artifacts and remains worldwide. Many of us put countless hours into developing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) to prevent burial desecration of this type, yet the pipeline was approved without a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), and the cultural resources survey did not involve proper consultation with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribes in the region.
The destruction of these sacred sites adds yet another injury to the Lakota, Dakota, and other Indigenous Peoples who bear the impacts of fossil fuel extraction and transportation. If constructed, this pipeline will continue to encourage oil consumption that causes climate change, all the while harming those populations who contributed little to this crisis.
We call on the federal government to abide by its laws and to conduct a thorough environmental impact statement and cultural resources survey on the pipeline’s route, with proper consultation with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. We stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and affirm their treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, and the protection of their lands, waters, cultural and sacred sites, and we stand with all those attempting to prevent further irreparable losses.
With concern,
Brenda Toineeta Pipestem, Chair, Board of Trustees, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Richard Lariviere, PhD, President and CEO, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Luke Swetland, President and CEO, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Micah D. Parzen, Ph.D., J.D., Chief Executive Officer, San Diego Museum of Man
Ben Garcia, Deputy Director, San Diego Museum of Man
Jill Hartz, President, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries
Anthony Shelton, D. Phil, Director, Museum of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Patsy Phillips, Cherokee Nation, Director of IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Mark J. Meister, President & CEO, Dayton Society of Natural History, Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, SunWatch Indian Village/Archaeological Park, Fort Ancient Earthworks and Nature Preserve
Suzan Shown Harjo, President, The Morning Star Institute, Guest Curator, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian, Recipient of a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
James Powell, Former President and Director of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum and former President of the Franklin Museum of Science
Beka Economopoulos, Director, The Natural History Museum, Brooklyn NY
Laura Raicovich, Director, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Dr. Scott Marsden, Executive Director, Haida Gwaii Museum, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
Robert W. Preucel, Director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence RI.
Jennifer Kirker Priest, Director, The James B. and Rosalyn L. Pick Museum of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Ray P. Reser PhD RPA, Director, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Museum of Natural History
Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director, Brooklyn Museum
Anthea M. Hartig, Ph.D., Executive Director and CEO, California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
Karl A. Hoerig, Ph.D., Anthropologist, Director, White Mountain Apache Tribe Nohwike’ Bágowa Museum
Dr. David Hurst Thomas, Curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York, Founding Trustee, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC
Tracy Calogheros, CEO, The Exploration Place, Museum+Science Centre, Prince George, BC, Canada
M. Sherry Bowman, Executive Director, Animas Museum, Durango, CO
Katie Anderson, Executive Director, Clark County Historical Museum, Vancouver, WA
Robin Grotke, Director, Cowan Museum of History and Science, Kenansville, NC
Carmen Vendelin, Museum Director, Silver City Museum, Silver City, NM
Johnna McEntee, Executive Director, The Ohio Museums Association
Allyn Lord, Director, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale, AR
Cynthia Walker, Executive Director, The Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, Maine
Elee Wood, PhD, Director of Museum Studies; Associate Professor of Museum Studies; Public Scholar of Museums, Families, and Learning; Indiana University (IUPUI)
Cynthia A Gresser, Executive Director, Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture, Prescott, AZ
James Pepper Henry, Executive Director, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Richard McCoy, Director, Landmark Columbus, Columbus, Indiana
Philip P. Arnold, Director, Skä·noñh—Great Law of Peace Center, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Kevin Coffee, Executive Director, Oneida Community Mansion House, Oneida, NY
Brianna E. Dunlap, Director, Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum, Windsor, CT
Nicholas Vrooman, Ph.D., Director, Northern Plains Folklife Resources, Helena, Montana
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Director, Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art, Curator of Native Art, Burke Museum and Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Karl Duncan, Executive Director, Poeh Cultural Center, Pueblo of Pojoaque
Jon M. Erlandson, PhD, Professor of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Museum of Natural & Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Michael Watts, Director Emeritus, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University
Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer, Executive Director, Hopa Mountain
Marianne George, PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Executive Director, Pacific Traditions Society
Betsy Taylor, Director, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network
Debora Kodish, Ph. D, Founder and Former Director, Philadelphia Folklore Project
Robert R. Janes, Ph.D. , Archaeologist, Museologist, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Museum Management and Curatorship
Lonn Taylor, Historian, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (retired)
Theresa Miller, Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Katie Roberts, MA, Museum Technician, The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Levia Lew, Former Gallery Lighting Specialist – Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian – Office of Design and Production. Washington D.C. Mall Museum.
Peter Muldoon, Conservator, Castle Collection, Division of Architectural History and Historic Preservation, Smithsonian Institution
Jackie Old Coyote, Apsaalooke Nation, National Museum of the American Indian Trustee, past, Smithsonian Institution
James Early, Former Director, Cultural Heritage Policy, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Jane Fortune (Portobago Band of Rappahannock), Manager of Collections Support Office, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Peter S. Brill, Deputy Asst. Director for Exhibitions, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Emily Kaplan, Conservator, Conservation Department, National Museum of the American Indian, Cultural Resources Center, Smithsonian Institution
Kelly McHugh, Objects Conservator, National Museum of the American Indian, Cultural Resources Center
Patricia Raynor, Museum Specialist, National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Ayla Amon, Assistant Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
Nancy Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Curator, Arts of the Americas, Brooklyn Museum
Nancy Bateman, Registrar, National Building Museum, Washington, DC
Debra Moskovits, Ph.D., Vice President, Science and Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Jaclyn Johnston, Director of PR and Community Awareness, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Jamie Kelly, Head of Anthropology Collections, Science and Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Paul Butler Díaz,B.A. Anthropology, Purdue University, Executive Board, Field Associates of The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Beth Crownover, Director of Learning, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Thorsten Lumbsch, Ph.D., Director of the Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum, Chicago
Nigel Charles Andrew Pitman, Ph.D., Senior Conservation Ecologist, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Debbie Linn, Conservator, Science and Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Alaka Wali, Curator of North American Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Carter O’Brien, Office of Science and Education, Sustainability Manager, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Angie Morrow, Head Registrar, Science and Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Karin Victoria, Foundation Major Gifts Officer, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Jacob Campbell, Ph.D., Urban Environmental Anthropologist, Keller Science Action Center, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Jamie Lewis, Anthropology Collections Assistant, Science and Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Lauren Hancock, Associate Registrar, Science and Education, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Alison Bastian, Anthropology Collections Assistant, Science and Education, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Susan Neill, M.A., Cultural Anthropology, Exhibitions Project Manager, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Christopher McGarrity, M.Sc., Vertebrate Paleontology, Assistant Exhibitions Registrar, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Rudiger Bieler, Curator, Science and Education, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Graham Aden Troyer-Joy, Senior Digital Interactive Producer, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Emily Graslie, Chief Curiosity Correspondent & Communications Specialist, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Caleb D. McMahan, PhD, Collections Manager of Fishes, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Helen A. Robbins, Repatriation Director, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Emily Hayflick, Repatriation Specialist, The Field Museum, Chicago IL
Lara Gonzalez, M.P.A., Calumet Heritage Communications Specialist, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Martha Alexander, Budget and Treasury Services Director, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Mary S Thieme, retired anthropologist and museum professional, currently assoc. Field Museum, Chicago
Clyde C. Compton, Prospect Research Coordinator, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Ashwin Ravikumar, Ph.D, Environmental Social Scientist, Keller Science Action Center, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Lawrence R. Heaney, PhD, Negaunee Curator of Mammals, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Leona Quist Vattimo, Public Learning Experiences Facilitator, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Theresa Reilly, Administrative Coordinator, Gantz Family Collections Center, The Field Museum, Chicago
Emily Ward, Exhibitions Media Producer, The Field Museum, Chicago
JP Brown, MS, Conservator, The Field Museum, Chicago
Susan Golland, Exhibition Developer, The Field Museum, Chicago IL
Susan Phillips, Exhibit Production Manager, The Field Museum, Chicago
Genevieve Zigterman, Payroll & HRIS Manager, The Field Museum, Chicago
Abby Ristow, Employment Manager, The Field Museum, Chicago
John Weinstein, Head Photographer, Science & Education, The Field Museum, Chicago
Mirana Bass, MSNM, Campaign Assistant, Institutional Advancement, The Field Museum, Chicago
Ellyn Nugent, Manager of Special Events,The Field Museum, Chicago
Patience Baach, Audience Insights & Research Manager, The Field Museum, Chicago
Crystal Mann, Special Events Account Manager, The Field Museum, Chicago
Jason Nallie, Senior Visual Designer / UI Developer, Andy Hershberger M.Ed, The Field Museum, Chicago
Stacy Dilling, Marketing and Advertising Director, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Heidi A. Rouleau, M.Ed., School Learning Experiences Manager, The Field Museum
Diana Duncan, Technical Services Librarian, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Pamela Gaible, Exhibit Mount Shop Supervisor, The Field Museum, Chicago
Wendy Quinlan, N. W. Harris Learning Collection Administrator, The FIeld Museum, Chicago, IL
Emily Wagner, Account Manager Special Events, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Donna Tocci, Former Wood Shop Supervisor/Preparator, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Dr. Abigail Derby Lewis, Senior Conservation Ecologist, Keller Science Action Center, The Field Museum, Chicago
Ellen Woodward, Administrative Coordinator, Keller Science Action Center, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Ellen O’Hanlon, Team Assistant, Institutional Advancement, The Field Museum, Chicago
Rachael MacLean, Public Relations Intern, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Patrick Hamilton, Director, Global Change Initiatives, Science Learning Division, Science Museum of Minnesota
Joanne Jones-Rizzi, Director Community Engagement, Science Museum of Minnesota
Liza Pryor, Project Leader & Exhibit Developer, Science Museum of Minnesota
Laurie Fink, Ph.D., Director of Science Programs, Science Museum of Minnesota
Dr. Edward Fleming, Curator of Archaeology, Science Museum of Minnesota
Amy Grack Nelson, Evaluation & Research Manager, Science Museum of Minnesota
Rich Pennington, Career and Community Connections Coordinator, Science Museum of Minnesota
Aiyana Sol Machado, Curriculum and Assessment Specialist, Science Museum of Minnesota
Shona Ramchandani, High School Program Manager, Science Museum of Minnesota
Elaine E. Avery, Exhibit Fabricator, Science Museum of Minnesota
Mark Olivares, Project Leader, Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center, Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Cyarra Swanson, BA in Youth Studies, Crew Manager, Science Museum of MN
Carol Mayer, Ph.D., Curator, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC
Pam Brown, Curator, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC
Alissa Cherry, Research Manager, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Dr. Jennifer Kramer, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Curator, Pacific Northwest, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Fuyubi Nakamura, D.Phil., Anthropologist, Curator, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Vancouver, Canada
Corinne Rupp, Director of Programs, Museum of the Oregon Territory, Oregon City, Oregon
Teija Dedi, Loans Registrar, University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
Nuno Porto, Curator, University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
Karen Duffek, Curator, University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
Jordan Wilson, Aboriginal Curator-in-Residence, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
Elizabeth Lominska Johnson, Ph.D., Curator Emerita and Research Fellow, UBC Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Bill McLennan, Curator Emeritus, Northwest Coast, UBC Museum of Anthropology, B.C. Canada
Susan Rowley, Ph.D. Curator at Museum of Anthropology and Associate Professor, Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
Tamara Billie, Senior Archaeologist/ Acting Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, The Navajo Nation, Historic Preservation Department, Cultural Resources Compliance Section
Erin Adams, Director of Education & Interpretation, Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage, Nashville, TN
Hannah Howard, Director of Public Programs &, Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage, Nashville, TN
Suzanne Fischer, PhD, Associate Curator of Contemporary History and Trends, Oakland Museum of California
Aquilina D. Lestenkof, Director, Office of Cultural Affairs, Pribilof Islands of Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska
Bridget Johnson, Assistant Director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art, Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Kathleen Kiefer, Conservator of Textiles, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Andrew S. Potts, J.D., Former Executive Director, United States National Committee, International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS)
Sarah Larsson, M.A., Anthropology, Yale University; Outreach & Development Director, Somali Museum of Minnesota
Roland S. Moore, Ph.D., Center Director, Prevention Research Center, PIRE, Oakland, CA
Justin B. Richland, JD, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The University of Chicago, Research Professor, The American Bar Foundation, Associate Justice, The Hopi Appellate Court, JS Guggenheim Fellow, 2016
Peggy Monahan, Creative Director of Exhibit Development, New York Hall of Science
Richard M. Leventhal, Executive Director, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Professor, Penn Anthropology, Curator, Penn Museum
Jonathan F. Walz, Ph.D., Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of American Art, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Dr. Craig N. Cipolla, Associate Curator, North American Archaeology, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
Stacey Marie Garcia, Masters of Science in International Museum Studies Gothenburg University, Sweden. Director of Community Engagement, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz CA
Eric Oosahwee-Voss, M.S., Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma
Larry J. Zimmerman, PhD., RPA, Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Public Scholar of Native American Representation, Eiteljorg Museum
Lynn M. Hanson, M.A., Vice President, Collections & Research, Dayton Society of Natural History, Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, SunWatch Indian Village/Archaeological Park, Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve
Latasha M Richards, Director of Museum Collections, Culture & Heritage Museums, York, SC
Tania Said, Director of Education, David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Maureen Malloy, Manager, Education and Outreach, Society for American Archaeology
Donna Graves, Public Historian, Member of National Trust for Historic Preservation Board of Advisors
William Kennedy, Curator of Anthropology, Dayton Society of Natural History, Dayton, Ohio
David Kennedy, Curator of Collections and Exhibits, U.S. Marshals Museum, Fort Smith, AR
Crista Pack, Objects Conservator, Missouri History Museum
Nika Collison, Curator, Haida Gwaii Museum at Kay Llnagaay
Meghan Rubenstein, Ph.D., Curator of Visual Resources, Colorado College
Laura Allen, Exhibition Consultant, American Museum of Natural History; University of Alaska Museum of the North
Lindsay A. Randall, Curator of Education, Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Andover, MA
Marla Taylor, Curator of Collections, Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Andover, MA
Stacey Halfmoon (Caddo), Director of American Indian Relations, Ohio History Connection
Holly Lundberg, Conservator for Objects & Exhibitions, Chicago History Museum, Chicago
Ramona Duncan-Huse, Senior Director, Conservation, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN
Barbara Brayshay, Director, Living Maps Network
Carole L. Crumley, Executive Director, on behalf of the Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE)
Ellen McHale, Ph.D., Executive Director, New York Folklore Society, Schenectady, NY
Charles Stanish, Director Emeritus, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Dr. Lucy Fowler Williams, Associate Curator, Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Daniel Holbrow, Program Director, Museums Association of Saskatchewan
Lisa Craig Brisson, M.A, History Museum Studies, Executive Director, Michigan Museums Association
John P Begley, Gallery Director Emeritus, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville
Rebecca Solnit, Historian
Carla Bednar, M.A.E., Educator and Curator, former Assistant Director, The Design Center at Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jill Anderson, former Teton County Historic Preservation Board member, co-founder of Teton County Wyoming Archaeological Society Chapter, and Curator of the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum
Brittany Porter, MA Anthropology, Curator at the Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso Downs, NM
Laura E. Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Affiliated Faculty, American Indian Studies, Adjunct Curator, MSU Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Lynne Goldstein, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Kari L. Quiballo, Knowledge River Scholar and Ph.D. Student, American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, Archivist at Old Pascua Museum and Yaqui Culture Center
Laura A. Coffin, Assistant Director, New Bedford Museum of Glass
Sarah E. Miller, MA RPA, Regional Director, Florida Public Archaeology Network, Flagler College
Steve Nash, PH.D., Acting Vice-President of Research & Collections, Chair, Department of Anthropology, Senior Curator of Archaeology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Brett R. Lenz, PhD, Wanapum Heritage Center Museum, Washington State
Carolyn S. Wynne. Site Manager at the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum, Bourne Historical Society Inc. Wampanoag Historian, Native Cultural Program Educator
B. Joby Hunt, MA., Practicing Anthropologist, Indigenous Cultural Conservation Society
Dr. Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo, Geologist, Archaeologist, Curator at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Kari Quiballo, Ph.D. Student, American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, Archivist at Old Pascua Museum and Yaqui Culture Center
Jeri Meeks, Operations Manager, Mesa Historical Museum, Mesa, AZ
Alison Stankrauff, Archivist and Associate Librarian, Franklin D. Schurz Library, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana
Lylliam Posadas, MSc, NAGPRA Coordinator, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, California
Kelly White, Victoria Police Museum, Melbourne, Australia
Joanna Church, Collections Manager, The Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Robert J. David, Archaeologist, Professor, American International Museum in London
Karen Everingham, Museum Technician, Illinois State Museum and Vice President of the Illinois Association of Museums
Mandy Langfald, Curator of collections, Wyoming State Museum
Stephanie Eddleman,, Early Childhood Specialist, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Emma Morris, Community Engagement Coordinator, Museums Association of Saskatchewan
Matthew H. Robb, Ph.D., Chief Curator, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Debra S. Baker, Research Archaeologist & NAGPRA Officer, Institute of the Great Plains/ Museum of the Great Plains
Sarah Sutton, Sustainable Museums, A climate change consultancy for museums; and Instructor, Harvard Extension, Museum Studies
Jo-Ann Conklin, Director, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University
Theresa Hammond, Director & Curator, Guilford College Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Anne Clothier, Director of Education, Brookside Museum & Saratoga County Historical Society, Ballston Spa, New York
Michael Schonhoff, M.F.A., Director, KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Aaron F. Miller, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Visual and Material Culture, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Erin Hutton, Director of Exhibition & Special Projects, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Kathleen Dang, Education & Events Coordinator, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
Karrie Porter Brace, Chief Exhibits Curator, ASU Libraries’ Archives & Special Collections
Christina Cain, Anthropology Collections Manager, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO
Gretchen Jennings, Museum Consultant and blogger at www.museumcommons.com
Stacey Mann, Interpretive Strategist & Museum Consultant, Unsilence Project; The Empathetic Museum
Danyelle Means (Oglala Lakota), Museum Consultant
Jennifer Whitlock, Archivist, Vignelli Center for Design Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Melynda Seaton, Ph.D., Curator, Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Genevieve LeMoine, Archaeologist, Curator, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, Bowdoin College
Antoinette Kurley-Begay, Principal Archaeologist, Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department, Shiprock, New Mexico
Marcy Goodwin, President, M. Goodwin Museum Planning, Inc., La Crescenta, CA
Paul Roebuck, Ph.D., Archaeologist, Dykeman Roebuck Archaelogy LLC
Amanda R. Harvey, MA, RPA, Archaeology Technician, Sierraville Ranger District, Tahoe National Forest, PhD Candidate, University of Nevada, Reno
Jodi A. Barnes, PhD, Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas
Linda Delone Best, Collections Manager, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Ashley Oliphant, Collections management, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Danielle Swanson, Collections Manager, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY
Shoshana Wasserman, (Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Muscogee (Creek), Director of Communications and Cultural Tourism, The American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, Oklahoma
Erin Quinn Valcho, Museum Curator, Lacey Museum. MA, Anthropology & Museum Studies, University of Denver
Angela Yvarra McGrew, Conservator/ Collections Preservation Specialist, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Jenna Peterson Riley, Educator & Assistant Curator, Schenectady County Historical Society
Marcia G. Anderson, Retired Senior Curator, Minnesota Historical Society
Gabriel Gresko, Director, Visitor Services, Mystic Seaport Museum of America and the Sea
Amy McKune, Director of Museum Collections, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Christa Barleben, Registrar, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Emily Koehler-Platten, Outreach Specialist, University of Alaska Museum of the North (M.A. History Museum Studies, Cooperstown Graduate Program)
Catharine M. Jansen MA, MLS, Librarian, retired, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Gena Peone, Archivist, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Olympia, Washington and member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians
Ashley Robinson, Exhibit Specialist, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Rebekah C. Ryan, Collections Assistant, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Jaq Nigg, festivals and markets manager, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Johanna M. Blume, Associate Curator of Western Art, History, and Culture, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Ashley Meredith, Yap State Cultural Anthropologist, Yap State Historic Preservation Office, Colonia, Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
Eva Fognell, Curator, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Marin F. Hanson, MA, PhD Candidate (University of Leicester), Curator–International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Amélie Masson-Labonté, Project Manager, Cultural Programs, McCord Museum
Dominique Trudeau, Head, Education Programs, McCord Museum
Katie Slivensky, M.A. Physical Anthropology, Education Dept., Museum of Science, Boston, MA
Jason R. Mancini, Ph.D. Director, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, CT
Jessica Pearl, MA, Museum Studies, Collections Manager, Raynham Hall Museum
Steven B. Jackson, Curator of Art and Photography, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana
Stephanie Michaels, Collections Curator, The Anderson Center for the Arts, Anderson, IN
Elizabeth Gessel, Ph.D., Associate Director of Public Programs, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
Bethany Zwick Brotman, Senior Graphic Designer, Intrepid Museum, New York, NY
Candace Weddle Livingston, PhD. Archaeologist and Assistant Prof. of Art History at the South Carolina School of the Arts at Anderson University
Meliam Vigano Gaspar, MA Archaeology, Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Univeristy of São Paulo, Brazil
Joanne Baron, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Tina H Smith, Museum Educator, Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University.
Claire Blechman, Digital Asset Manager, Peabody Essex Museum
Karen Kramer, Curator of Native American and Oceanic Art and Culture, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Alyssa Tobin, B.A. Archaeology, Archaeologist and Museum Curator, The Exploration Place B.C. Canada
Katherine Hoeh Griffin, Massachusetts Historical Society
Shelly Buffalo Calf, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming
John Jackson, MFA, Exhibition Designer at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Mary Melcher, Ph.D. Education Program Manager, Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, Arizona
Kara Underwood, Muskogee Nation member, Employee at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology
Stephanie V. Riley, Assistant Curator, Sky City Cultural Center & Haak’u Museum, Pueblo of Acoma, NM
David Lobbig, Curator of Environmental Life, Missouri History Museum
Michael D. Fox, Ph.D. Candidate, Curator of History, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT
Katharine Wood, MA, Evaluation Associate, Minnesota Historical Society
Chuck Hill, Retired Archivist, Eastern Kentucky University (previously Project Archivist, Lakota Archives & Historical Research Center)
Mark Nelson, Collections Technician, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, VA
Gene R.V. Smith Jr, Archaeologist, Bureau of Land Management, Rock Springs Field Office, Wyoming
Mary Ruffin Hanbury, Founding Principal, Hanbury Preservation Consulting
Jen Filer, Lead Educator, Northwest Park Nature Center, Windsor, CT
Devorah Romanek, Curator of Exhibits, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Alice Boccia Paterakis, Project Conservator – Soldier’s Memorial Military Museum, Missouri History Museum, Library and Research Center
Kirsten Hammerstrom, Director of Collections, Rhode Island Historical Society
Laura Winnie, Youth Programs Manager, Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, FL
Melita Jureša-McDonald, Associate Manager for Information and Content, Preservation Division, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Jennifer Rebuck, Associate Registrar, The Historic New Orleans Collection
Nicole M. Mathwich, M.A., Zooarchaeology Curatorial Specialist, Arizona State Museum
Lori Schlenker, Collections Coordinator, University of Kansas, Biodiversity Institute
Cara Bramson, Student Outreach and Programming Coordinator, Princeton University Art Museum
Nancy Marie Mithlo, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Arts, Occidental College and Chair of American Indian Studies, Autry Museum of the American West
Amanda Hofstra, Associate Museum Registrar, San Francisco International Airport Museum
Dessa E. Lightfoot, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory Technician, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA
Hannah Abelbeck, Archivist, New Mexico History Museum
Beverly Balger Sutley, M.A., Registrar, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University
Jan Summers Duffy, archaeologist, Orma J. Smith Museum, The College of Idaho
Nayden Prahov, PhD in Archaeology, Program Director of the Balkan Heritage Foundation and Expert Archaeologist at the National Institute of Archaeology and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Tom Andrews, PhD, Archaeologist, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Carolyn Horlacher, RPA, Archaeological Lab Supervisor, AECOM, Burlington, NJ
Anne Elise Pollnow Cultural Resource Specialist/Archaeologist, Sea Level Consulting, Sitka, AK
Joshua Moses, Assistant Professor, Anthropology/Environmental Studies, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, USA
Antonia Mills, PhD, Anthropology, Harvard University, Professor Emerita, First Nations Studies, University of Northern British Columbia
Bill Goetz, Vice President, Friends of Little Salt Spring, FL; and Sarasota County Historical Commission, FL
Jesse Swann, Tribal Councilman, Piscataway Conoy Tribe
Margaret M. Bruchac, Ph.D., Anthropologist, Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Sara L. Juengst, Ph.D., Dept of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Charlotte NC
Scot Keith, Assistant Director of Archaeology, New South Associates, Stone Mountain, GA
Candace Mullins, Assistant Director, Grow Appalachia
Zoila Mendoza, Professor and Chair of Native American Studies, UC Davis
Joan Saverino, Ph.D., Lecturer, Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Theresa Schober, President, Florida Anthropological Society
Kisha Supernant, Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta
Madeline Coleman, M.A., Project Archaeologist, Tree Time Services Inc., Edmonton, AB
Arzu Demirergi, PhD, Archaeologist
Karen B. Supak, Owner/Archaeologist, Indiana Jane, Evansville, IN
Christian Gates St-Pierre, Assistant Professor, Département d’anthropologie, Université de Montréal, President of the Public Advocacy Committee, Canadian Archaeological Association
Brad Loewen, Professeur titulaire d’archéologie historique et maritime, Département d’anthropologie, Université de Montréal
Kim D. Stryker, Folklorist, George Mason University
Bryanna Durkee, Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, emphasis in Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management certificate. Fort Lewis College. Member of the Cherokee Nation. Community Member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Carol Silverman, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Folklore Program, University of Oregon
Patty Kelly PhD, Anthropologist, Haverford College
Lesley Harrington, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta
Cailin Murray, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Ball State University, Munice, IN Native American Studies scholar
Katherine Borland, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Studies and Director, Center for Folklore Studies, Ohio State University
Chad Huddleston, PhD, Instructor – Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Adjunct Assistant Professor – Department of Anthropology and Sociology, St. Louis University
Nicholas C. Kawa, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
Liza Grandia, Associate Professor, Department of Native American Studies, University of California-Davis
Fred J. Hay, Ph.D., Anne Belk Distinguished Professor
Mary Hufford, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Virginia Tech
Richard B. Peterson, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Studies, University of New England
Shannon A. Novak, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Christopher Decorse, Professor, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Louise I. Paradis, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal
Tessa Farmer, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and Global Studies, University of Virginia
Sara E. Alexander, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Baylor University
Allison Mickel, Ph.D., Lecturer, Stanford University
Emily Hilliard, West Virginia state folklorist, West Virginia Humanities Council
Adam Henne, PhD, University of Wyoming Global & Area Studies Program
Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the Practice, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Joy Hendry, Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Mark Gardiner, PhD, Lecturer, Stanford University
Sharon Irish, PhD, Architectural historian/Independent Researcher, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ellen Moodie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Korinta Maldonado, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Anthropology and Native American Studies. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jenny L. Davis, Assistant Professor, Dept of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
A. Lorraine Weekes, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Janette Bulkan, Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Resources Mana, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jerry Zee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Robert E. Walls, Ph. D., Dept. of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
Neal Keating, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Jason Pribilsky, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Social Sciences. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.
Micha Rahder, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Geography & Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Joshua Lockyer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences, Arkansas Tech University
Janet greenfield, Anthropologist, University of New Orleans
Jodie Asselin, Anthropologist at the University of Lethbridge
Keri Brondo, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.
Corey Smith Riley, Objects Conservator, Riley Art Conservation Services, Raleigh, NC
Steven Naganashe Perry, co-chair of the American Indian Movement Western Michigan chapter, GVSU Advisory committee to the Kusche History project
Anna J. Willow, Associate Professor, Ohio State University, Department of Anthropology
Pamela Creasy, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology, Adjunct Instructor Online, Southwestern Oregon Community College and Ashford University
Kathy Hayes, Adjunct Professor, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
Jane Heather, Associate Professor, Department of Drama, University of Alberta
Karisa Miller, Archaeologist, RPA, Yorktown, VA
Michael R. Jones, Ph.D., Research Associate, Institute of Nautical Archaeology
Nina Dewi Horstmann, Ph.D Student, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Sam Holley-Kline, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Maron Greenleaf, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Rebecca DelliCarpini, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio
Sallie Anna Steiner, Ph.D. Candidate in Folklore, Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Virginia Eichhorn, Director & Chief Curator, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound ON
Matthew Sayre, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of South Dakota
Camille Frazier, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Martina Losardo, Ph.D. Student, Anthropology, University of Milan “Bicocca”, Italy
Emily Colón, Ph.D student, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland
Michael Young, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
Emma Banks, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
Brieanne Berry, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Maine
Pedro de la Torre III, PhD Student, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Terese Gagnon, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Taapsi Ramchandani, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Nicole Klein, MA, Anthropologist, LSU FACES Laboratory
Anett Sasvari,