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(ARPA) CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

	(ARPA) Crime Scene Investigation
	Cultural Resources Management Training for Tribes
	Cultural Resources Technician Certification Training
	Inadvertent Discovery of Human Remains Training
	Tribal Perspectives on Cultural & Natural Resources Management Training
	(ARPA) Awareness Training
	Cultural Resource Awareness Training
	Cultural Sensitivity Training
	The Volpentest HAMMER Training and Education Center
	Indian Lake

Annual Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) Training for Law Enforcement and Cultural Resources Professionals.

This training class is a 2- day lecture and field course concerned with ARPA and the resources it protects. This training is unique in that it is taught from a tribal perspective and complements an existing ARPA training program taught by the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). The course was developed by the CRPP in cooperation with other local tribes and agencies. A tribal perspective is important because disturbing cultural resources is not a victimless crime as most people assume. By providing a forum for Native Americans to speak about the impact of looting, students begin to understand and appreciate the seriousness of the crime.

	Click here to watch video about Crime Scene investigation (2.2 MB) Hare in the Gate Productions, LLC, ©2004
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A looted house pit is ready for investigation.	Two looters (actors) are seen digging a site and in this picture, discussing a day's pay.

Another unique quality of the class is that the field portion is conducted on simulated archaeological sites that were created by tribal members. Tribal technicians manufactured all the flaked stone and ground stone artifacts, thus creating flakes (stone chips resulting from making stone tools) and other lithic (stone) debris. They constructed all the features including two house pits, fire hearths, earth ovens, and rock cairns. There are 12, 5 x 5M archaeological sites. Eleven are intentionally looted each year prior to the mock ARPA crime scene investigations.

The Crime Scene Investigation class shows up for the bust.	Detective Brian White cuffs looter Audie Huber.

Instructors include federal and county prosecutors, supreme and superior court judges, state archaeologists, local detectives, federal land managers, tribal cultural resources personnel, and tribal elders. It is taught each October as part of Washington Archaeology Month and by special arrangement. The training is held in Richland, WA, in order to involve local tribal elders and to take advantage of the U.S. Department of Energy’s HAMMER Center.

The devastation is ugly.	A student measures a footprint.

Click Here to download "Training for Law Enforcement Officers & Cultural Resource Professionals
Click Here to download "Tribal Perspectives in the War Against Looters" by Julia G. Longenecker and Jeff Van Pelt
Click Here to download "Training for Law Enforcement a Tribal Perspective" by Julia G. Longenecker and Jeff Van Pelt

The looters' vehicle is inspected and later confiscated.	A human burial has been unearthed.
An ARPA investigation team consists of: law enforcement officers, an archaeologist, and tribal members.

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