RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Tukusngaluĝa, or the Chiefs’ Gathering Place: A Bureaucratic Case History of an Alaska Native Heritage Site in the Aleutian Islands
JF Arctic Anthropology
JO Arctic Anthropol
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 83
OP 91
DO 10.1353/arc.2012.0002
VO 48
IS 2
A1 Rita A. Miraglia
YR 2011
UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/48/2/83.abstract
AB In 1991, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) ANCSA archaeologists investigated an ANCSA 14(h)(1) application for a Native historical place on the north shore of Amlia Island. Two circular depressions were located and tested. The tests did not produce any cultural material. BIA subsequently certified the site ineligible. The site was reinvestigated by BIA archaeologists in 2001. This paper reports on the results of that reinvestigation, as well as on ways in which politics affect the fate of Alaska Native heritage sites.