Dr. Joan S. Schneider This is Me

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1. 1. www.aiar.org

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   Published on: 1/1/2007   Last Visited: 12/19/2007

   Joan Schneider (University of California, Riverside), "Refining the Search for Basaltic Quarries and Workshops in Northern Israel: A GeoArchaeological Approach"

2. 2. CabazonNation.com - The home of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians

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   Published on: 5/9/2004   Last Visited: 4/27/2005

   The Oasis of Mara in Twentynine Palms was studied by archeologist Dr. Joan Schneider of the University of California Riverside. Documenting its heritage and the role it played with the Twentynine Palms Band of Mission Indians was a lengthy process that followed a precise methodology to ascertain a site's importance. "We try to determine if it's a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP)," she said, which gathers archeological evidence for whether a location is rooted in the community's history, whether the site has yielded or will yield information and evidence, and whether it's part of the cultural identity of the community. The determination of TCP is ultimately time consuming and requires an archeologist working in conjunction with tribal members who can share their knowledge. "All Sacred Sites are TCPs," she said. Schneider put together a compelling history for the Twentynine Palms Band, which today has reservation land near the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians reservation in Indio.
   
   How did they get there?
   
   The tribe, she says, is the namesake for the town Twentynine Palms since it can be reasonably determined to have resided there until outsiders arrived, taking up residence in the tribe's settlement near its main water supply. By 1908, when the Southern Pacific Railroad was built, the government "moved the Twentynine Palms Band from their original settlement which had become a population center, to a barren hillside with no water," Schneider said. "It effectively broke apart the Twentynine Palms Band and ran them off."
   
   The band, she said, moved from its high desert location to the low desert where the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians is located.
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   The Oasis of Mara is the site where water was available to Twentynine Palms Band tribal members, and Schneider was able to determine that water existed there some 9,000 years ago.

3. 3. Joshua Tree National Park Association : Desert Institute Natural Science Courses

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   Published on: 10/13/2001   Last Visited: 3/11/2006

   JOAN S. SCHNEIDER, Ph.D., Assistant Research Anthropologist, UCR, and Associate State Archaeologist. Dr. Schneider has extensive experience in the archaeology of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts and has been a principle investigator/project director for ongoing research in Joshua Tree National Park since 1991. Her interests are focused on geoarchaeology as well as settlement patterns and subsistence practices of early arid land peoples. Since 1987, she has taught classes at the Desert Studies Center at Zzyzx
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   Joan S. Schneider, Ph.D., Assistant Research Anthropologist, Anthropology, UCR Instructor: