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• Section_Exhibit Name: EXHIBIT 05 CULTURAL RESOURCES REPORT 7
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historical periods serve to generally isolate sites within temporal periods, they do not contribute to
understanding their social context, something cleazly the case at SLA7186. Within the American
' period, eight subperiods representing stages are identified below and in Tables 10 and 12. The
bracketing dates are of national significance with the exception of the temporal break between
' Subperiods II and III (1876/1877), which has greater regional than national significance. Generally,
the following sociopolitical subperiods are temporally represented in the artifact and architectural
assemblage identified at SLA7186:
' subperiod II (1860-1876) -This subperiod extends from the Territorial period of the state
through statehood, and the end of the first major homesteading era in Colorado.
subperiod III (1877-1893) -This subperiod encompasses the period of statehood through the
silver crash of the early 1890s.
subperiod IV (1894-1916) -This subperiod includes the beginning of the second major
homesteading migration into the Plains to the on-set of the World I era.
' subperiod V (1916-1930) -This subperiod extends from the World Waz I era to the onset of
' the Depression and the close of the final era of homesteading in the region.
The narrative becomes more focused with the passage of time, emphasizing mainly local and
regional events after the onset of the American period, and including in its entirety of the period of
principal historical habitation of the present Purgatoire valley region (the late 1860s through to the
present time) (Table 12).
' Additional research questions aze concerned with the issue of ethnicity. This problem
domain is critical to the study of SLA7186 since it can be a sensitive indicator of change brought on
' by both environmental and cultural factors. When viewed from a historical perspective, the changes
become quite evident, especially as they relate to the sites associated with New Mexican Hispanic
groups. These sites provide evidence of culture change through a gradual adaptation from a solely
' subsistence-oriented economy depending on access to all components of the resource base, a
generalized use of the total environment, minimal or no occupational specialization, self-reliant local
' production for local consumption, and a low level of technological development, to a selective
participation in the larger cash, wage-labor, and specialized production economy that had been
introduced by the AngloAmericans (Weber 1980).
' The identification and ethnographic reconstruction of ethnic groups living in the site is
another key research question for the understanding of the Purgatoire Valley community. The
' documentary accounts of the Purgatoire River Valley (Weber 1982; Friedman 1985; Carrillo 1990;
1994) suggest that New Mexican Hispanics were present in the region in the early ] 800s, using the
area as pasture land and for trade fairs held with the Native Americans (Carrillo 1990). Comparative
' studies of mining areas have shown that ethnic segregation is a common feature of frontier
settlement (Lord 1883; Hardesty 1980; Hattori 1975; Mann 1982; Smith 1967). In addition, the
• vertical networks or class structure of the community are often influenced by ethnicity (Deutsch
' 1987; Limerick 1987).