Work with ASU and UofA.
Lane - In Navajo program, a lot of archaeological technicians who do leg work.
They are not supervisors. At Navajo no degree opportunity. Isolated with
degree institutions too distant. Programs exist. Some students take classes,
and work. Some help with training from Coconino forest. Important to have
degree in work place. There is a need to have trained Native Americans on the
reservation. Expose children early on so they can pick up on interest. Get
scholarships. So far none for archaeology. Good for Arizona Archaeology
Council to offer money for training or schooling. Scholarships needed to pay
for classes, supplies, room(?) plus possibility of summer employment. If
available, no guarantee anyone would go for it, but give it a try. Have youth
camps and offer archaeology, opportunities are good.
Gasser -
Lane - 50-70%
Canouts - Contracts, career tracts. Hopi out-reach program. Concentrated on
material objects but from a variety of angles. Expose students to technology.
Archaeology in government is more of a preservation end of things. One person
wears many hats with archaeology just an aspect. Action item to get into
regulations.
Gasser - Canouts - No consensus, deep splits.
Jenkins - Is there certification?
Urban - Arizona Archaeological Society programs in certification. Various
tracts of experience.
Gasser - Also Forest training programs.
Ferguson - Work with archaeologists, intense short course worked with Kintigh.
Breternitz - Under contract to Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. Bureau of Reclamation.
Part of contract stipulates Native American training. Good experience. First
task was tribal involvement plan. On how to turn field work experience into
course credit. Work on home ground. Three summers. At first 80% turnover.
Second 20%. Then this year only a couple. Glass ceiling with good solid
training, but no degree no top positions if go elsewhere. Hindered by lack of
degree. Hard to drop everything and go off reservation to get degree. How can
extension programs go to reservation so that these trained people can get
degrees. Hire some of those unemployed archaeologists (Ph.D. types).