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Navajo Nation Chaco Protection Sites Program Records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 0024

Scope and Contents

__This collection contains records documenting, preserving and interpreting Chaco Protection Sites Program sites on Navajo Nation land and a few corresponding sites, e.g. Chaco Culture NHP sites. The collection consists of eight series and thirty subseries covering the establishment of the program; it's administration and management; documentation of CPSP sites and various precolombian landscape projects with images, maps, and drawings; as well as publications, papers, and presentations by NNCPSP staff and through collaboration with Chaco Culture NHP and other colleagues. Of note, there is a linear foot of magnetic and optical media records as yet mostly non-accessed, likely containing elements of all series.

Dates

  • 1980-2009 (Bulk 1993-2009)

Creator

Biographical / Historical

__This collection consists of Chaco Protection Sites Program records from the Navajo Nation, a partnership created with the National Park Service in support of the Chaco Protection Sites Program legislated in 1980 (PL 96-550). Continuous cooperative agreements created annual work plans involving NPS and the Navajo Nation CPSP. The COTR for the CA was the Chief of Cultural Resources, Dabney Ford. Manager of the NNCPSP was John R. Stein.

The NNCPSP primary function as implemented by the IMG's Joint Management Plan was to protect, preserve, and interpret sites on Navajo Nation land through field archeology, non-invasive archeology, and traditional culture, e.g. ethnography. The NNCPSP Manager and the NPS liaison positons were funded by the early '90s, with work beginning in 1993. The 1995 amendment created a funding stream via the Chaco Culture NHP for NNCPSP.

Extent

22 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

[Organization]The collection consists of eight series: Series I: Program Overview and Administration; Series II: Program Management; Series III: Navajo Nation Chaco Protection Sites Program (CPSP) Projects; Series IV: Pre-Columbian Landscape Projects; Series V: Projects Publications, Presentations, and Papers; Series VI: NNCPSP Projects Photography; Series VII: Program Maps, Drawings, and Plans, 1993-2008; Series VIII: Program Electronic, Magnetic and Optical Media Records, 1993-2009

Provenance

Provenance: John R. Stein, Archeologist

Related Materials

COLL 0039 __Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Archives __COLL 0057 __Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Archives __ACC CHCU-00655 __Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Museum Collection __ACC CHCU-00656 __Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Museum Collection __ACC CHCU-00657 __Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Museum Collection __ACC CHCU-00659 __Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Museum Collection
Title
Finding Aid for Navajo Nation Chaco Protection Sites Program Records
Subtitle
Collection 0024
Author
Chaco Culture National Historical Park, National Park Service
Date
2023
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the NPS Chaco Culture National Historical Park Repository

Contact:
Chaco Culture NHP & Aztec Ruins NM Museum & Archives Program
Hibben Center Rm 307 - MSC01 1050
450 University Blvd NE
Albuquerque NM 87106 USA