ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Indigenous Peoples, Parks Canada, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
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Numerous frameworks/policies/codes often developed by professional associations. No coherent legal framework exists at the federal level for protection of sites on lands and in waters controlled by the federal government (parks canada is the exception) The government of canada archaeological heritage policy framework (1990) Cultural property import and export act (1985) Historic sites and monuments act (1953; 1985) All provinces and territories have enacted legislation to protect from harm archaeological sites and historical places. Variances include: how archeological objects and sites are defined, how old and object as to be, who gets to dig. Varies among provinces and territories because of different histories and relative proportions of distinct ethnic. Four major types of archaeology: academic archaeology education and research, archaeology in industry cultural resource management (crm, indigenous archaeology research design determined by indigenous organizations, amateur archaeology volunteers, looters/pothunters, pseudo-archaeologists. Canada has one of the strongest crm laws in the world.
