Historic Preservation
About
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This office has the honor of protecting Mohican and Munsee cultural sites and burial places from disturbance. It also works to repatriate cultural items to the community and to return ancestors held by museums or other institutions for respectful reburial.
It carries this out primarily through participating in Government-to-Government consultation under two federal laws pertaining to cultural resources: Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
The Historic Preservation program fields an average of 800 such federal, state and local project reviews annually across its service area spanning six states where the Tribe has ancestral territories.
Consulting with Indian Tribes in the Section 106 Review Process
Section 106 Consultation Procedures
Words of Our Ancestors: Revisting Indiantown 2018 Mohican History Seminar
Stockbridge Walking Tour | Native American Heritage Trail
Repatriation and You: A Community Guide For the Berkshires and Hudson Valley
Guidelines for Respectful NAGPRA Consultations S-M Tribal Historic Preservation Office
Contact Information
Address:
86 Spring Street
Williamstown, MA 01267
Staff
Jeff Bendremer, PhD, MA, RPA
Tribal Historic Preservation Officer
(413) 884-6029
Please send project reviews to: thpo@mohican-nsn.gov