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2006 Preserve America Summit Involving All Cultures
Involving All Cultures Panel
The panel discussing “Involving all Cultures” is eager to reach out to as many people and organizations as possible to benefit from the expertise of those in the field who work with under-represented cultures. The charge of this panel is to assess the challenges and the tools available now, with an eye toward goals. They will discuss how to focus efforts to truly involve all cultures in the recognition and preservation of this under-represented segment of our nation’s history.
Submit comments to one of the co-chairs:
Sherry_Hutt@nps.gov, bambi@nathpo.org, or ruth.pierpont@oprhp.state.ny.us
The panel set forth questions in the hope that comments will spawn from the following ideas:
- How can representatives of all cultures assert their cultural identity and work toward the recognition and protection of their significant historic resources?
- How can awareness of this issue be promoted in the historic preservation field?
- How can preservation be used to strengthen traditional communities both culturally and economically?
- What challenges are faced in identifying culturally significant resources through documentation that is not traditionally accepted in the preservation field, such as oral histories, folklore, musicology and ethnography? Do documentation standards need to be clarified/refined to address this?
- Cultural resources present new challenges, particularly when it comes to integrity and aesthetic issues of ongoing and living cultures. How can we best recognize the significance of these resources?
- What happens when the use of a structure is more significant than its physical form?
- Should integrity standards be different for cultural resources than other resources?
- Are Section 106 protections sufficient for more fragile and less easily recognizable resources? Protections in place protect buildings and sites, not the uses that make them significant – how can living cultures and less easily definable resources be protected?
- How can federal, tribal and state agency efforts be improved in dealing with all cultures? What new programs or policies could be used to promote awareness, recognition and protection?
Posted September 5, 2006