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Online Petition Information

State Government, Official State Web Sites, State Historical Societies, Office of the State Archaeologist

SHPOs and Preservation Organizations

Federal Search Engines

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Action

Resources for different avenues of action in the fight to save American Indian burial grounds.

Online Petitions

www.PetitionOnline.Com provides free online hosting of public petitions for responsible public advocacy. A good suggestion is reading and studying other petitions. PetitionOnline suggests that for experienced advice on writing persuasive letters and petitions one should take a look at the book Shocked, Appalled, and Dismayed! How to Write Letters of Complaint That Get Results, by Ellen Phillips.

The Media

Council Fire's email links to US news media

Contact your Senate and House Representatives

Email your Congressional Representative in the US House of Representatives. Enter your state and zip and it'll find your rep. A 5 digit zip code may not be sufficient. To look up the remaining 4 digits, if you don't already know them, go here.
Connect with your Senator. It's as simple as looking up your state.

State Government, State web sites, State Historical Societies

State Historic Preservation Officers and Other Preservation Organizations

Arrowheads.com list of State Historic Preservation Officers and Other Preservation Organizations

State Historic Preservation Officers by state search.

All SHPOs

Ishgooda.nativeweb.org's links to NAGPRA and state preservation legislation resources.

The National Park Service Preservation Assistance Division

Information on the Historic Preservation Fund. Every year, approximately $40 million is appropriated by the U.S. Congress to the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF). The HPF provides matching grants to encourage private and non-federal investment in historic preservation efforts nationwide, and assists State, local governments, Indian tribes, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation with expanding and accelerating their historic preservation activities nationwide.

National Trust for Historic Preservation

National Register of Historic Places

Tribal Historic Preservation Officers. In 1992 the U.S. Congress adopted amendments to the National Historic Preservation Act (P.L. 102-575) that allow federally recognized Indian tribes to take on more formal responsibility for the preservation of significant historic properties on tribal lands. Specifically, Section 101(d)(2) allows tribes to assume any or all of the functions of a State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) with respect to tribal land. The decision to participate or not participate in the program rests with the tribe.

Cultural Resources Mapping. "One key to protecting cultural resources is knowing where they are. A true assessment of the impact of construction projects on cultural resources depends upon accurate locational data...The CRGIS facility is often called upon to provide Cartographic Services for other programs in the National Park Service...The CRGIS facility has offered low-cost technical assistance to a wide variety of groups and organizations, from local battlefield preservationists at Corinth, Mississippi to cultural resource managers along the Natchez Trace Parkway to Indian tribes of the Chippewa Nation. With assistance from CRGIS, State Historic Preservation Offices are beginning to use GIS to automate historic resource inventories. A GIS database can contain a complete record of resources for any geographic area. By establishing such a database, cultural resource managers are better equipped to identify and protect historic areas."

Federal

Thomas, Legislative Information on the Internet
Infomine, scholarly Internet Resource Collections, Government Information Search Engine
Government Information Locator Service

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