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history and archaeology . Delicate ethnographic issue. Care in how to go about it. Archaeologists to work with ethnographers.

Kintigh - Models- archaeologists work directly with the tribe. Archaeologists work with oral history. Archaeologists work with tribal members.

Ferguson - Tribes control the research.

Dongoske - Some ethnographic data recorded wrong.

Laidlaw - Talk about oral tradition is like talking about sites. Oral history covers a large body of data, and how do you collect any part of it. If information is “sacred” it will not be given out, or if it is given out, will probably be wrong. Lot of ethnographic data recorded in the past is inaccurate. Some questions asked were absurd. Becareful of the oral history collected around the turn of the century. Need the ethnographer, tribe represented and people there in.

Reid - People participate in history.

Canouts - Challenged on these parallel tracts. If convergence that scientific lends more credence to oral history. Have basis in material expression. All kinds of knowledge needs to be given equal amounts of weight.

Downum - Movement in archaeology to question what we are doing, looking for oral traditions to give validity to what we are doing. So now mine oral tradition. What would Native Americans like to see archaeology do? Archaeologists need Native American input to determine what features are function, meaning. Archaeologists use oral tradition to validate historical patterns. (change tape...) on verge of new ethnical trend. What do Native Americans want out of archaeologists.

Dongoske - Run risk of science validating oral history. In court, take word of Ph.D. rather than that of a Hopi. Native Americans asked to prove it! So a partnership.

Gasser - At some places need Native American input. Simple passing down of knowledge. Can over complicate things.

Kintigh - By in large archaeologists are sacred of Indians, physical anthropologists are petrified. Social anthropologists not begin asked to work with Indians.

Downum - Codes and ethics need to be better developed. Who should write accounts, get the forum to disseminate information and in what form. Who should talk about the past.

Jenkins - Archaeologists should be afraid of Indians. Especially Anasazi as they’re cannibals! Wants to write a book: “Me Talk, You Listen”. Modern archaeology should draw upon life

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