REVISED DATE – REQUEST FOR STATEMENT OF INTEREST & QUALIFICATIONS
Conduct Research to Explore Complex Cultural Connections Through Oral History Interviews Related to Pipe Spring National Monument.
Replies Requested by MAY 23, 2018
Pipe Spring National Monument is seeking Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) collaborators to explore complex cultural connections through oral history interviews. These efforts will explore multicultural perspectives with several associated groups and assist the monument to document historic and prehistoric use of the land and water resources, develop ethnohistories, and create training and interpretative materials.
The monument is seeking a CESU partner to expand the park’s oral history collection through interviews to connect the park’s resources with cultural meanings, real people, and their stories. The monument’s Foundation Plan (2015) has identified the need to gather information through oral histories with Southern Paiute and Mormon descendants. The NPS is interested in including additional tribes with a cultural tie to the resources of Pipe Spring in these interviews. To further interpret and document these varied viewpoints and cultural ties, Pipe Spring is working to identify possible candidates for oral history interviews from the different cultural groups for the P.I. to interview.
Additional general information about the park can be found at: https://www.nps.gov/pisp/index.htm
Project Objective and Goals
Specifically, the National Park Service would like the research to encompass the following:
1. Development and documentation of connections between the multiple cultural groups and the park’s cultural and natural resources.
2. Development and documentation of connections and interactions between specific groups that have ties to the park’s and the surrounding landscape’s resources.
3. When connections and interactions are established, development of personal background history, exploration of the connection with the area, cultural meaning/context of the resource(s), stories/anecdotes related to that resource(s).
4. Completion of a Final Report detailing the individuals interviewed, linkages to the site and to the resource(s), edited transcriptions of interviews, signed release forms that meet NPS guidelines for all interviews conducted, archival-quality copies of all interview recordings on archival-quality DVDs, and copies of any research notes or material collected as a result of the project.
5. Creation of a database of persons/organizations/groups with an association to Pipe Spring who are discovered in the regular course of research but not interviewed – including name, likelihood they are willing to be interviewed, a brief description, dates of association, and source of the information- which the park can continue to build on in the future.
6. Other, to be determined during formative discussion between NPS and P.I.
Sexton, at brandon_sexton@nps.gov, with copies to PISP Resource Management Technician, Brian Black, at brian_black@nps.gov and PISP Chief of Interpretation and Visitor Services, Fermin Salas, at fermin_salas@nps.gov, by the close of business May 23, 2018 or sooner. Should you have questions, please feel free to contact the monument’s Museum Curator, Brandon A. Sexton, at (928) 643-7105.
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