CULTURAL RESOURCES
TECHNICIAN CERTIFICATION TRAINING
These classes are held where there is
access to the natural environment so that the students can learn
how to find, identify, document and protect the cultural resources
on the ground. Once they learn the basics, they are taken through
a field exercise to apply this knowledge.
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| Grand Ronde Tribe Technician
Certification Training on the Grand Ronde Reservation |
Jeff Van Pelt and Lloyd
Barkley strategize on how to teach the value of site report
forms. |
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| Tribal members learn to make stone tools
by flintknapping. |
Tribal members learn to document an archaeological
site. |
Training sessions have been conducted
for the Grand Ronde and Warm Springs Tribes. Below is an example
schedule for one of these trainings.
Training
is on request. Call the Program Manager at (541) 276-3629 for more information.
This is an example of how this training
is structured:
Day 1
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Introductions - 1. Introduction for students, teachers,
staff
2. Introduction to the training: Not Just Stones and Bones video
3. What is Cultural Resources Management in Indian County?
4. What is Archaeology, and how can it help?
5. Discussion, questions and answers.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Cultural Resources Laws – Antiquities Act, National
Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Archaeological Resources Protection
Act (ARPA), Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act of 1974
(AHPA), Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA),
Reservoir Salvage Act, American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA),
Executive Orders, State of Oregon laws, and what these laws mean
to Native American cultural resources protection.
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
How to aid in Law Enforcement – Some success stories
of catching and convicting the Bad Guys: ARPA Training, field monitoring,
cooperating with local law enforcement, helping the prosecution,
giving evidence in court, getting reimbursed for damages to the
resource, etc.
Day 2
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Bone Identification – Different kinds of bones (fish,
amphibians, birds, mammals, people), different types of bones (leg,
rib cage, back bone, neck, pelvis, etc.), different sizes of the
same type of bone (because animals come in different sizes), different
stages of development (because mammals age), and bones as a reflection
of the animal, the environment, and the diet.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Bone Identification Continued
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Artifact Type Identification – artifact identification
discussion.
Day 3
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Oral History – Methods of gathering data for ethnographic
studies, equipment to use, sound, still photography, videos, and
what can be done with videos. View two example videos: Hatiya (Wind)
and The River Has Many Stories.
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Native Plants – The identification and use of native
plants in the region of the Grande Ronde Indian Reservation.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Topography – Maps and how to use them, the USGS survey
system (Township, Range, Section, and parts of sections), contour
lines and how to interpret them, stepping off distances, using a
compass with declination, drawing sketch maps.
Day 4
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Identifying Artifacts – What to look for in the field,
historic and prehistoric artifacts and features, chipped versus
ground tools, complete versus broken tools.
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Making Artifacts – How to get from a piece of rock
to a biface, and from that to a projectile point (spear point, dart
point, arrowhead), what is left over on the ground when a chipped
artifact is made or sharpened (this is important because it is what
you find on the ground.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Site Forms – How to fill them out, how to get the
information, why the information is necessary, extreme paperwork!
Day 5
8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Basics of Field Survey – An introduction to locating
cultural resources, what to look for: prehistoric sites, historic
sites, artifacts, features, etc.; how to look for it: transects,
spacing, direction, etc.
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Lunch – Bring your own sack lunch to the site
12:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Site Recordation – Filling out site forms. This is
the cumulation of the week’s training, where students get
to apply what they learned.
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Wrap Up – Questions and answers, discussions, evaluation
of the training and Good Bye!
Clean up
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