tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8788575.post6305075299230072889..comments2024-01-11T22:45:53.276-08:00Comments on Tom King's CRM Plus: CONSULTATION, DICTATION, AND DRUIDS ON THE SALISBURY PLAINThomas F Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037819472341496713noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8788575.post-78664507341234385462017-05-31T06:32:36.273-07:002017-05-31T06:32:36.273-07:00Nah, and you haven/t lost your superb sense of hum...Nah, and you haven/t lost your superb sense of humor either, Tom! That was an hilarious riposte. Your point about "consultation" dictation is spot-on. Rational agents/agencies need to consult on <i>how to</i> consult, by the way. If they don't, it almost always proceeds as a cycloptic agency dictation, and that's the chronic problem you highlighted.MVNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8788575.post-9818599319671714682017-03-26T16:38:29.521-07:002017-03-26T16:38:29.521-07:00I must have totally lost my ability to communicate...I must have totally lost my ability to communicate. Thomas F Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00037819472341496713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8788575.post-80734388296830358852017-03-20T11:54:11.855-07:002017-03-20T11:54:11.855-07:00Right, well, we're talking about Stonehenge he...Right, well, we're talking about Stonehenge here - not the widening of Route 37 through Sheboygan, due to start work in 180 days. If there is federal land or a federal nexus for Route 37, federally recognized Tribes have the reserved right of consultation, which includes the reserved right of repatriation of remains and artifacts, and over which the feds have some temporary control. The Route 37 managers have to comply with that reserved right, and so do the archeologists who work for them. That's the law. But the same reserved right does not exist for unmarked graves or artifacts that might be "claimed" by, say, the Daughters of Old Wisconsin, or the Brigade of Wisconsin Union Volunteers, or the local Sheboygan Hibernian Society, or a non-recognized Indian Tribe. For these latter groups, they should be offered the same general consultation that will be offered to the public, but they don't have any rights to any of the remains or artifacts. For these non-Tribal groups, repatriation is not mandated, probably not appropriate or allowable, and doesn't need to be addressed in their consultations at all. Not all consultations are the same, and it is just not right to equate them or draw so many parallels. And, federally recognized Tribes have reserved rights that the rest of the nation does not - period. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com