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An anthropological perspective on Zuni land use
Zuni and the courts : a struggle for sovereign land rights • Lawrence, Kan. • Published In 1995 • Pages: 103-120
By: Ferguson, T. J. Thomas John).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the litigation proceedings before the United States Claims Court between the Zuni and the United States government over lands taken by the government without payment and for damages to the reservation by the acts and omissions of the United States in its role of trustee. In the judicial proceedings two fundamental issues were raised: (1)the extent and organiztion of traditional Zuni land use and,(2)the relationship between human land use and environmental degradation. In the latter case erosion was one of the principle damages claimed by the Zuni although the U.S. Department of Justice asserted that erosion was a natural, clyclical process not related to human land use. This assertion therefore had to be examined using data from all of the research disciplines applied by Zuni experts, including anthropology. Details of this investigation comprise a large portion of this work. In addition to contributing information pertinent to the issues involved, anthropological data were useful in documenting damage to archaeological sites caused by road construction on the Zuni Indian Reservation (p. 113).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Land use
- Tillage
- Environmental quality
- Water supply
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Pastoral activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zuni
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Ethnohistorian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1846-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- T. J. Ferguson
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94044026
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zuni Indians