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Over the last several years, Mounds State Park and Strawtown Koteewi Park, two government-owned and managed sites in central Indiana, USA, have become the focus of debates that reveal a variety of perspectives on the value of heritage sites among different groups of community stakeholders including Native Americans, recreational users, economic development promoters, archaeologists, and heritage professionals. A study investigating “stakeholder-defined values” of these heritage sites has revealed how different groups perceive the physical remains of the past. Discourse analysis of the debate around these sites highlighted how governmental entities, including tribal, county, and state governments, navigate the often conflicting agendas and interests of these groups by deploying different concepts of cultural heritage.
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Kryder-Reid, E., Zimmerman, L.J. (2018). Of, By, and for Which People? Government and Contested Heritage in the American Midwest. In: Rodenberg, J., Wagenaar, P. (eds) Cultural Contestation. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91914-0_12
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