GEOARCH, Inc.

10/04/2026

New South Associates, Inc., is seeking two Full-time, Benefited Project Archaeologists for a salaried exempt position in our Columbia, South Carolina and Fairfax, Virginia offices.

For full job description please visit:
https://newsouthassoc.com/careers/

To apply:
Please submit a cover letter, resume, a writing sample, and contact information for three references to Maureen Meyers, Director of Archaeology: [email protected]. This call for applicants will remain open until filled or December 1, 2026.

09/29/2026

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09/23/2026

09/04/2026

Alexis de Tocqueville had come to America to study its prisons, not its cruelty, when he stopped in Memphis in December 1831.

Ice choked the Mississippi that winter, and on its banks he found a column of Choctaw families waiting to cross.

They carried almost nothing, no tents, no wagons, only what they could bear in their arms.

The wounded, the newborn, and the dying all stood together in the freezing cold.

Tocqueville watched as they filed toward the boats without a single cry or sob, a silence he never forgot.

Left behind on the bank were the dogs that had traveled with them the whole way.

As the boats pulled away, the dogs set up a dismal howl that carried across the water.

Then, one after another, they plunged into the icy Mississippi and swam after the people they belonged to.

Tocqueville, the aristocrat who had come to admire American democracy, wrote down the scene almost in spite of himself.

He called what he witnessed the expulsion, in the midst of civilization and, so to speak, in sight of Europe, of an entire people.

Tocqueville had traveled to America to praise its institutions, and instead he left Memphis with a scene he could not reconcile with anything he believed about liberty.

He never forgot the sound of those dogs howling across the ice, and neither, once he wrote it down, could his readers.

09/03/2026

A truly incredible coalition of more than 600 public, private, and nonprofit-sector organizations has risen as one to oppose the proposed changes to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. This diverse coalition is calling on Congress to reject the proposed changes to Section 106, to not weaken Section 106 through statutory changes, and to “Seek genuine improvements to Section 106 based on facts and data to make review more valuable and efficient without trading away the rights, voices, and protections that make the process meaningful.”

Here at NATHPO, we couldn’t agree more, and we stand ready to work with Congress and the Administration to make those productive changes that don’t undermine the sovereignty of Tribal Nations and maintain protections for sacred places and cultural resources.

https://culturalheritagepartners.com/open-letter-to-congress-from-national-coalition/

08/21/2026

NATHPO, along with theNational Congress of American Indians. the on American Indian Affairs. and the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. Sovereignty Protection Fund, issued a joint statement in strong support of protecting the Section 106 process of the National Historic Preservation Act.

Section 106 gives Tribal Nations a seat at the federal decision-making table, helping protect sacred places, ancestral lands, burial places, and cultural landscapes before federal decisions become irreversible. Proposed revisions to 36 C.F.R. Part 800 would expand federal agency discretion, weaken meaningful government-to-government consultation, and fall short of the federal government's trust and treaty obligations.

Once a sacred place is destroyed or ancestral remains are disturbed, consultation after the fact cannot restore what has been lost. Our organizations stand united to ensure Section 106 is strengthened, not weakened.

Read the full joint statement and learn how to take action:

https://www.ncai.org/news/joint-statement-on-protecting-section-106-process-of-nhpa?utm_campaign=47882608-Statement%20%2F%20Press%20Release&utm_content=384558769&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-244554749685&fbclid=IwVERDUATy4S9wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnK8UpQ1lyOkhWLFMdyX8qPeGyCE8zdosns79T7TDFJUPPy5KpXeGQ6Q0Ilq_aem_-gctuFlJ2us5aUAgyeSArQ

08/19/2026

08/19/2026

📣 Join the Sand Creek Massacre Foundation in opposing proposed revisions to the National Historic Preservation Act that would jeopardize historic sites nationwide by contacting your state, tribal and federal representatives!

Read our statement below:

The Sand Creek Massacre Foundation strongly urges state and federal representatives to oppose the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s (ACHP) proposed drastic revisions to the regulations implementing Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. These proposed changes will erase 60 years of historic preservation policy and threaten the survival of the most significant sites, places, and landscapes that have long endured as icons of the nation’s shared history.

The ACHP’s proposal would virtually eliminate the ability of individuals, communities, local and state governments and Tribes to participate in the identification and protection of the historic sites and places that define their cultural identities; places such as the site of the Sand Creek Massacre, where the United States Army slaughtered 230 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho people in 1864.

Without the currently robust “Section 106 process”, sacred places like the Sand Creek Massacre Site may not survive unilateral federal agency decisions about the impacts of potentially damaging undertakings. Had the Sand Creek Massacre Site not been identified through a collaborative federal/state/tribal process, the site may never have been preserved, its significance as one of the most sacred places in the Cheyenne and Arapaho worlds would not be understood, and its memory would be largely forgotten by the American people. The truth of that atrocity and its significance in American history would never be acknowledged nor serve as a source of healing, education and reflection on our contemporary world.

While the Sand Creek Massacre Site is now preserved as a national historic site, many other similarly sacred, nationally significant and irreplaceable sites and places will be endangered under the ACHP’s gutted regulatory changes. As we speak, the West Texas site of the 1918 Porvenier Massacre is facing destruction by the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection, to be replaced by the border wall. Under the ACHP’s proposed regulations, there may be no opportunity for descendants of massacre victims to participate in a collaborative process leading to measures to avoid or minimize harm to the historic site.

Without the opportunity for the participation of citizens at the local, state and Tribal levels in the identification of sites like those of the Sand Creek Massacre and consultation with federal agencies about how to minimize or avoid harm to them, innumerable archaeological sites, sacred places, cultural landscapes and other memorials of America’s story will be damaged or destroyed without recourse.

Of most concern to the Sand Creek Massacre Foundation is the ACHP’s proposed elimination of Tribal involvement in the Section 106 process. This egregious proposal violates the deeply ingrained tenets of the government-to-government relationship with American Indian Tribes and blatantly undermines federal trust and resources stewardship responsibilities.

We urge you to oppose this draconian assault on the National Historic Preservation Act, especially (and ironically) during celebrations of the nation’s 250th anniversary. Protect the National Historic Preservation Act, and the hard-won regulations that carry out its purposes. Without our history, we are not American.

https://www.sandcreekmassacrefoundation.org/news

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