num_pages: 398
description: Offers a unique perspective on tribal approaches to managing historic preservation and addresses the multiplicity of issues common to all tribal historic preservation groups.--Joe Watkins director Tribal Relations and American Cultures Program National Park Service A concise detailed account regarding the enormity of the task THPOs face in successfully navigating the two worlds of federal historic preservation laws and statutes and tribal cultural beliefs knowledge and traditions.--James Quinn Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut An important book that highlights the complicated confusing and often contradictory world navigated by the intrepid personnel of the Seminole Tribe of Floridas Tribal Historic Preservation Office.--Ryan Wheeler director Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology As indigenous populations are invited to participate in cultural heritage identification research interpretation management and preservation they are faced with a variety of challenges questions that are difficult to answer and demands that must be carefully navigated. We Come for Good describes the development and operations of the Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) of the Seminole Tribe of Florida as an example of how tribes can successfully manage and retain authority over the heritage of their respective cultures. With Native voices front and center this book demonstrates ways THPOs can work within federal and tribal governments to build capacity and uphold tribal values--core principles of a strong tribal historic preservation program. The authors also offer readers one of the first attempts to document Native perspectives on the archaeology of native populations. Willie Johns  Stephen Bridenstine  Marty Bowers  Paul N. Backhouse  Danny Tommie  Anne Mullins  Eric Griffis  Jeffrey W. Sepanski  Jack Chalfant  Mary Jene Koenes  Matthew Fenno  Karen Brunso  Jessica Freeman  Annette L. Snapp  Maureen Mahoney  Juan J. Cancel  Carrie Dilley  Lewis Gopher  Domonique deBeaubien  Kate Macuen  Bradley M. Mueller  James Charles  Timothy A. Parsons  Quenton Cypress  Brent R. Weisman
language: English
title: We Come for Good: Archaeology and Tribal Historic Preservation at the Seminole Tribe of Florida
publisher: University Press of Florida