The Heritage Center's Work
A sound foundation of knowledge, experience and trust is required to
support the cooperation necessary to reintegrate traditional values,
beliefs and practices with economic development. Only then can we provide
for sustainable resource management in a healthy human and natural
environment.
To this end, the Heritage Center engages in three broad task areas:
- Documentation and Analysis of the oral history, folklore, customs and
traditional practices of occupational, ethnic, religious and local groups
- Conservation of these materials either through depositing them at the
Heritage Center or at another archive, repository or museum, or through
assisting communities in developing their own conservation strategies,
such as cultural resource inventories and plans
- Education of the public through the development of historically and
culturally sound forms of public programming, such as responsible cultural
and historical tourism, festivals, museum exhibits, teacher training
workshops, media programming and publications
The range of the Heritage Center's activities is demonstrated by a some of
the projects it has conducted in New Mexico and internationally.