A new report issued by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) calls upon federal agencies to fulfill their obligations under law to consult Indian tribes on major infrastructure projects.
The federal support and expertise of the National Park Service may be headed toward historic African American cemeteries through the African American Burial Grounds Network Act.
Today, the Coalition for American Heritage submitted comments to safeguard historic preservation efforts that are being threatened by proposed changes that govern nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.
In the early 15th century, Portuguese explorers like Henry the Navigator began sailing to Africa, bringing back both goods and enslaved people. A new archaeological study of more than 150 skeletons dumped in Lagos, Portugal, reveals that many of the enslaved Africans were not given proper burials and that several of them may even have been tied up at death.
On March 1 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a blockbuster decision that has wide-ranging implications for preservation groups, Native American tribes, developers, and consultants.