Foreword

The articles presented in this volume were prepared for the 1997 Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings held in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of the session was to convey what is happening in the world of cultural resource management in Indian country today. There is a change underway, due primarily to the direct involvement of Native Americans in cultural resource management. The field is changing from viewing cultural resources as sources of scientific information to understanding cultural resources as important parts of indigenous cultural systems.