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<br /> <br />i , In addition to these assumptions, it is understood that a <br /> dynamic, responsive research design also will address current needs <br />' and concerns of the American Indian communi <br />that th <br />d <br />t <br />the <br />d b <br />r <br />h <br />eol <br />i <br />t <br />d ty. It is <br />th <br />t recognized <br />f <br />l <br /> e <br />a <br />a ga <br />re <br />y a <br />c <br />s <br />a <br />og <br />s an e <br />ypes o <br />ana <br />yses <br /> performed on those data are often of little relevance to American <br />' Indians whose interpretation and use of cultural sites focuses on <br /> social and spiritual values. Indeed, the empirical methods of <br />cultural resource management professionals may be perceived as <br />Eurocentric and offensive by American Indians who find little or no <br />' real value in scientific interpretations of site data. An <br />overriding goal of this research design is to reconcile these <br />' apparently divergent needs. This goal requires a data synthesis <br />that is empirically sound and scientifically valid and whose <br />information content is consonant with the values and needs of <br />' American Indian communities. This can be accomplished only <br />through on-going close consultation with American Indian community <br />leaders and scholars and through the use of state of the art <br />analytic methods. <br />' Far from indicating a narrow or superficial range of <br />behaviors, structures and patterns in the archaeological record <br />' represent processes stemming from a past culture's entire fund of <br />acquired knowledge. Any cultural group's fund of knowledge must be <br />assumed to extend beyond the manipulation of the physical <br />' environment to abstract social and ideological realms. It was and <br />is this shared knowledge that allowed cultures to thrive not only <br />' physically, but ideologically and spiritually. <br />The following research questions are formulated specifically <br />' for the area that includes southern Rabbit Mountain, southern <br />Indian Mountain, and Dowe Flats, and are derived from the current <br />data base for this area. The content of these research questions <br />necessarily reflects the strengths and weaknesses of this data <br />base. For instance, very few temporally diagnostic artifacts have <br />' been recovered by professional archaeologists within or adjacent <br />' 62 <br /> <br />