Sustainable Heritage Tourism: Native American Preservation Recommendations at Arches, Canyonlands, and Hovenweep National Parks

Richard Stoffle,Cameron Kays,Kathleen Van Vlack,Octavius Seowtewa

doi:10.3390/su12239846

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Nov 25, 2020
Citations: 6	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: University of Arizona, Pueblo of Zuni

Abstract

The sustainable use of Native American heritage places is viewed in this analysis as serving to preserve their traditional purposes and sustaining the cultural landscapes that give them heritage meaning. The research concerns the potential impacts of heritage tourism to selected Native American places at Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and Hovenweep National Monument. The impacts of tourists on a heritage place must be understood as having both potential effects on the place itself and on an integrated cultural landscape. Impacts to one place potentially change other places. Their functions in a Native American landscape, and the integrity of the landscape itself. The analysis is based on 696 interviews with representatives from nine tribes and pueblos, who, in addition to defining the cultural meaning of places, officially made 349 heritage management recommendations. The U.S. National Park Service interprets Natives American resources and then brings millions of tourists to these through museums, brochures, outdoor displays, and ranger-guided tours. Native American ethnographic study participants argued that tourist education and regulation can increase the sustainability of Native American places in a park and can help protect related places beyond the park.

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Native American heritage places exist in many U.S national parks
This analysis is about the potential impacts of heritage tourism to selected Native American places at Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and Hovenweep National Monument (Figure 1)
The concept of voice necessarily raises questions of who has authority to claim a voice for a social group or community. This authenticity issue was raised in these Ethnographic Overview and Assessment (EOA) assessments of park interpretative displays that quote a Native American without there being a clear evidence of tribal approval

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Native American heritage places exist in many U.S national parks. Most are interpreted as archaeology ruins, but natural places like canyons, mountains, springs, streams, fields of plants, and the nesting homes of raptors are often not known as places of cultural importance to Indian people and generally are neither a part of why the park was established nor a part of its ongoing heritage management. Service (NPS), are used to identify places of cultural importance to Native American tribes and pueblos that are a part of their cultural heritage. The primary dual mandate of the new NPS was (1) to preserve natural and cultural resources from this time forward. The primary dual mandate of the new NPS was (1) to preserve natural and within specific parks and (2) to provide public access to these resources. These dual goals can be in cultural resources within specific parks and (2) to provide public access to these resources.

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