ABSTRACT
Historic preservation in the United States is rapidly changing in fundamental ways as Indian tr ibes assert their legal r ights and cultural values. As conceptualized through the 1966 enactment of the National Histor ic Preservation Act (NHPA), the still evolving national historic preservation programme was founded on and driven by a partnership between the federal government, individual states (primarily through State Historic Preservation Officers [SHPOs]), private citizens and individual Indian tribes. For various reasons, most notably amendments to the NHPA in 1992, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA), tribes are expanding their participation in the national histor ic preservation programme. This participation, particularly in the American Southwest, is obliging the other partners to examine and rethink their roles as well as their long-standing values and assumptions about the past.
