Ms. Dyan Youpee\, Lakota/Dakota\, represen ts the Fort Peck Assiniboine &\; Sioux Tribes of northeast Montana\, in cultural preservation as the Cultural Resource Department Director. Her p osition also serves as the Tribes&rsquo\; historic preservation officer (T HPO)\, museum curator\, archivist\, and conducts field surveys on her rese rvation lands. Ms. Youpee&rsquo\;s father created the department for the T ribes&rsquo\; in 1995\, where she grew up watching her fathers&rsquo\; eff orts of cultural preservation. Today she&rsquo\;s a practitioner of embedd ed generational knowledge\, as well as exploring new evolving career pract ices that she balances with her cultural upbringing. Ms. Youpee believes h er work is most dedicated to acknowledging her ancestors (her father) and to the future lineage yet to be born. She will be presenting on her work a s Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. \;
\nMs. Youpee graduate d an A.A. in American Indian Studies\, A.A.S. in Business Technology\, and B.A. in Anthropology. She recently won the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Excellence Award this past February\, and is pursuing a masters degree in CRM at St. Cloud State University\, MN.
\nThis event is presented in partnership with the University of Arkans as Department of Anthropology.
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