ABSTRACT
The Army's interest in this project was to bring Fort Drum into compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The United States was not involved in any form of armed conflict at the time, and the tasks at hand did not seem to challenge any of author beliefs about the military and nonviolence that had formed as she came of age during the Vietnam era. Once the curation facility was up and running on its own, the federal archaeologist for Fort Drum took over responsibility, and she returned to consulting for other agencies on a project-by-project basis. In 1998, the federal archaeologist at Fort Drum approached me to ask if she would consider taking on the writing of a long-range plan for the Fort Drum program. The Native Americans were becoming increasingly anxious about the situation and were concerned about the possibility that the continued military training would disturb ancestral remains.
