Current Research Projects
Include:
Below we have listed a few of the current research
projects that the Institute is involved in. We only conduct research
on the highest ethical standards, ensuring that all parties involved
(i.e., researcher, researched) are pleased with the results. Furthermore,
we sign MOU's and other Memoranda with most of our clients guaranteeing
that private information is kept private; intellectual property is not
manipulated or disseminated without permission.
- Indigenous Peoples
Issues & Resources. This is an ongoing, long-term project
that is compiling and establishing a free, open resource on indigenous
peoples issues. Bringing together articles, reports, essays, and
other literature in an attempt to provide a research protal for
issues impacting indigenous peoples.
- Cultural Affiliation and Cultural Continuity within the American
West. This long-term project takes a stance based on an epistemological
praxis of epoche in looking at the question of cultural affiliation
and cultural continuity between present-day American Indian tribes
of the Plateau and Great Basin regions and those of the historic,
prehistoric, and protohistoric record. The Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) guidelines are utilized
for a in-depth inquiry into this issue. Because we do not take any
particular stance (i.e., in favor of archaeological data, linguistic
data, biological data, etc.) we are not clouded by our own presuppositions
to the data itself. The first monograph from this research is now
available in hardback. Click
to buy on Amazon.
- The American Indian Source Book for Colorado. Compiles
into one document all Federal, State, and County documents dealing
with the American Indians of Colorado from 1700-2000. This document
will be made free of charge to American Indian tribes, non-profits,
and academic institutions in order to allow a proper understanding
of the complex legal history that has taken place within Colorado
that still effects various American Indian groups.
- The Introduction of Infectious Disease into the Great Basin
and Plateau. This project critically reviews all previous research
on the introduction of Old World disease such as smallpox, typus,
and other diseases into the greater American West, as well as cross-referencing
archaeological data and employing epidemiological demographic models.
Preliminary results suggest that Old World infectious diseases arrived
in the Plateau area by 1660, and slightly earlier in the Great Basin
depending on the region. A preliminary article from the research
is available here.
- An Assessment of the Shifting View of American Indians by
Euroamerican Settlers in the West. This project is a reassessment
of much of the early explorers journals, missionary documents, as
well as anthropological studies that have discussed American Indians
using postcolonial, oriental, and cultural relativistic theories
as a baseline.
Previous Projects Include:
- Nez Perce, Yakama, and Umatilla Native American Cultural
Significance of Natural Resources on the Hanford Nuclear Site.
Boulder, CO: Stratus Consulting (Prepared for Hanford NRDA Trustee
Council).
- Social Value Analysis: Elk Management Plan, Wind Cave
National Park. Total Quality NEPA, National Park Service.
Wind Cave, ND.
- Social Value Analysis: Fire Mitigation in Bandelier
National Monument. Total Quality NEPA, National Park
Service. Bandelier, NM.
- Social Value Analysis: Dogwalking in Golden Gate National
Recreation Area (GGNRA). Total Quality NEPA, National
Park Service, San Francisco, CA.
- Cultural Uses of Natural Resources by Walker River and
Yerington Paiute Tribes. Prepared for Yerginton Mine
NRDA Board of Trustees, 2005. (#S012-4C-0697).
- American Indian mtDNA and Y Chromosome Genetic Data
and the Peopling of North America. Boulder, Co: Bauu
Institute Press. Click
here to buy from Amazon.
- Old World Infectious Disease in the Plateau Region of
North America: Re-thinking our Understanding of "Contact"
in the Plateau. Journal of Northwest Anthropology,
37(1): 1-26.
- Current Limitations of mtDNA and Y chromosome
testing to Infer American Indian Cultural Affiliation and Demographic
History. The AnthroGlobe
Journal, 2002.
- A Critical Evaluation of the Bureau of Land
Management's Evidence for Determination of Cultural Affiliation
of Ancient Human Remains from Spirit Cave, Nevada, by Barker,
Ellis, and Damadio (July 26, 2000). Prepared for the
Fallon Paiute Tribe, 2001; contracted through Walker Research
Group.
- An Ethnographic Assessment of the BA Emitter
Site. Prepared for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes and the
Air Force Combat Command, 2001; contracted through Walker Research
Group.
- Natural Resource Use and Cultural Use of
the Leviathan Mine Impacts on the Washoe Tribe. Prepared
for the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, 2001; contracted
through Walker Research Group.
- A Preliminary Ethnographic Assessment of
the Armstrong County Gunnery Range. Prepared for the
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, 2001; contracted through Walker Research
Group.
- A Critial Examination of the Department
of the Interior's Decision to Repatriate the Kennewick Human Remains.
Prepared for the Yakama Tribe, Nez Perce Tribe, Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation, and the Wanapam Band, 2001; contracted through Walker
Research Group.
- A Preliminary Ethnographic Assessment of
the Armstrong County Gunnery Range. Prepared for the
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, October, 2000; contracted through
Walker Research Group.
- Anthropology,
Tribes, and The Transformation of American Anthropology: A Few
Observations. In High Plains Applied
Anthropologist, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2000; with Deward E.
Walker, Jr.
- Other Perspectives on the Kennewick Man
Controversy In American Anthropologist. 102(4):907-910;
with Deward E. Walker, Jr.
- The
Nez Perce. Essay for University of Washington/Library
of Congress publication. Published On line August, 2000 .
- Implementing the Multicultural Curriculum.
In Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, Vol. 32, No.2,
Fall 1998; with Deward E. Walker, Jr.
- A Cultural Assessment of Riparian Habitats.
Prepared for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Environmental Protection
Department., October, 2000; contracted through Walker Research
Group.
- A Cultural Assessment of the Cascade Reservoir
Area. Prepared for the Bureau of Reclamation
and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation,
September, 1999; contracted through Walker Research Group.
- A Cultural Assessment of the Carson River
Valley Area. Prepared for the Washoe Tribe of
Nevada and California, July, 1999; contracted through Walker Research
Group.
- Feasibility Study for Implementation of
an Adventure Based Cruise Line in the Caribbean.
Prepared for Rhumba Cruises, November, 1999.
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