Book chapter
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Canada, and Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, United States
Aspects of Management Planning for Cultural World Heritage Sites, pp.49-58
Springer International Publishing
11/24/2017
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69856-4_5
Abstract
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (1981) and Cahokia Mounds (1982) were among the first 200 sites admitted to the World Heritage List (WHL) and among the first, respectively, for Canada and the United States. These properties were admitted well before the UNESCO Operational Guidelines of 2005 that specified that each listed property should have an appropriate management plan. This chapter reviews and contrasts the nominating documentation produced in the early 1980s for each of these properties and identifies the critical elements of the respective initial management systems established for each. Changes over the past three decades in management will be traced and current approaches to how the outstanding universal values of these properties are being sustained are elucidated. These two sites present interesting opportunities for comparison as they are in dramatically different settings, with Head-Smashed-In located in a rural area near Fort Macleod (population ca. 3100) in a relatively remote part of the world (Alberta, Canada) while Cahokia is embedded within the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area (population ca. 2,800,000). These settings present very different management system challenges. Particular attention will be paid to the involvement of descendant First Nations/American Indian communities in both the development and implementation of the management plans for these sites.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Canada, and Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, United States
- Creators
- John F. Doershuk - Iowa Policy Project
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Aspects of Management Planning for Cultural World Heritage Sites, pp.49-58
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-69856-4_5
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/24/2017
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; Office of the State Archaeologist; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984397233602771
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