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42 Jurimetrics 145 (2001-2002)
Perspectives on Research in American Indian Communities

handle is hein.journals/juraba42 and id is 155 raw text is: PERSPECTIVES ON RESEARCH IN AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITIES Malcolm B. Bowekaty* ABSTRACT: This article discusses research-oriented responsibilities of the Zuni governor and tribal council to the Zuni people. To reduce potential negative effects and to enhance the lifestyle of the Zuni, these bodies screen and review research in an effort to ascertain compliance with tribal law, to be culturally respectful, and to determine what, if any, beneficial effects the research will have for the Zuni people. As a result, studies concerning high prevalence diseases, such as diabetes, are given preference. These principles may apply to other American Indian and Alaskan native communities. CITATION: Malcolm B. Bowekaty, Perspectives on Research in American Indian Communities, 42 Jurimetrics J. 145-148 (2002). Since historic times, my people have had direct interaction with researchers. Our community members have experienced good and bad ethnographic, genetic, epidemiological, and behavioral research. For example, ethnographic researchers in the late 1800s wrote about Zuni, disclosing esoteric religious and spiritual prac- tices for popular magazines like The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly. Ironically, these researchers collected sacred paraphernalia, bribing destitute tribal members with money, thereby creating a new norm for the illegal selling of sacred items and creating a demand by outsiders for ethnographic materials. Consequently, our community was deluged with researchers such as Frank Hamilton Cushing, Matilda Cox-Stevenson, and Ruth Bunzel. Archaeologists also created similar norms and ransacked entire villages from pre-Spanish contact sites. Currently, the New Age movement has created demand for fetishes and crystals as symbols of cosmic energy and power. This demand for sacred animal effigies and crystals has triggered looting of sacred sites and religious shrines where fetishes, rocks, and crystals are placed or deposited. * Malcolm B. Bowekaty is Governor, A:shiwi (Zuni Indian Tribe). WINTER 2002

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