eastman introduction

The speaker, an undergraduate student, finds the topic of MACPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) challenging and has been discussing it for almost 30 years. They interview Dr. Jane Eastman, a mortuary archaeologist at their university, who has extensive experience with MACPRA. Dr. Eastman has worked on excavations on and around campus and has helped with repatriations. She currently manages the archaeological facilities at Western Carolina University and specializes in mortuary and landscape archaeology. She also assists in teaching fieldwork to other archaeology undergraduates. As an undergraduate student myself, this is an incredibly difficult topic to conquer. As only an undergraduate student, this is an incredibly difficult topic to conquer. And these discussions have been going on for almost 30 years. So to fully understand the situation, I knew I would have to interview someone who has a lot of experience in dealing with the complicated bureaucracies of MACPRA. Dr. Jane Eastman, who works at my own university, who is a mortuary archaeologist, whose research surrounds a lot of mortuary archaeology and landscape archaeology. She has worked on many excavations both on campus and around campus that have uncovered things that have needed MACPRA's help. And I knew that if anybody I could get in contact with would be able to help me understand the intricacies of Cherokee beliefs. And I knew that if anybody on campus was going to be able to help me understand the intricacies of MACPRA and how repatriation works. Dr. Jane Eastman, who currently manages the archaeological facilities at Western Carolina University. She has a specialty in mortuary and landscape archaeology and has participated in many MACPRA repatriations herself She has helped with excavations on campus in order to build buildings and excavations held throughout the region that aim to help other archaeology undergraduates learn how to do fieldwork.