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Indigenous Knowledge and Federal Action

Sara C. Bronin writes that the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, which she chairs, has adopted a Policy Statement on Indigenous Knowledge and Historic Preservation. The policy statement, for the first time, recognizes the validity of “indigenous knowledge” as a basis for federal action — in this instance in the ways in which such knowledge can be incorporated into the work of the Advisory Council’s regulatory actions relating to historic preservation. Read more here.