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A new generation of Native Americans is influencing how heritage tourists are experiencing traditional places such as Canyon de Chelly and Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation in Arizona, and Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. Read more on this topic at:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/travel/23native.html?hpw

The 11th biennial Southwest Symposium will take place in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico on January 8 and 9, 2010. This unique forum fosters networking for anthropological and archaeological research among colleagues in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. The theme this year is “Building Transnational Archaeologies.”

Visit the conference website to learn more: http://sw-symposium.binghamton.edu/index.html

Archaeological evidence is showing that humans have long played a role in altering their environments, whether intentionally or not. Changes made in prehistory have led to successes as well as disasters. Find out more here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112124572&ft=1&f=1007

The Friends of the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) and the National Trust for Historic Preservation recently convened experts to discuss historic preservation and environmental sustainability. After two days of intense discussions, the group developed the core of the Pocantico Proclamation on Sustainability and Historic Preservation. They are inviting review and public comment of the draft proclamation at their website: http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/pocantico-proclamation-on-sustainability-and-historic-preservation/

Indian Country Today recently published an article reporting how a growing number of Native American Internet users are turning to the popular social media Web site, Twitter, to get the word out on issues of traditional and cultural importance. One of the most recent examples of the phenomenon is the vast amount of energy many users have spent raising awareness of the desecration of a stone mound in Alabama created by American Indians approximately 1,500 years ago. Read about it here: ttp://www.indiancountrytoday.com/home/content/51572337.html