Aug 2023: Editors’ Note on Updating Content

The built environment is in constant flux, whether from demolition and new construction, renovations and additions, or changing function and use. Social protest and cultural progress also transform the built environment, as we have witnessed in efforts to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces. The effects of climate change are equally consequential, with flooding and wildfires imperiling, damaging, and destroying significant buildings and sites with increasing frequency.

As a digital publication, SAH Archipedia strives to ensure that its content is up to date and that published texts accurately reflect physical conditions on the ground. To that end, our editors and authors are reviewing individual entries and essays to identify those that need to be updated.

While this work is ongoing and continuous, we want our readers to know that we are prioritizing updates to entries and essays (and illustrations and metadata) dealing with monuments to white supremacy and memorials that otherwise symbolize oppression to indicate (1) the removal of statues and other forms of dismantling or transformation, (2) the renaming or retitling of buildings, parks, plazas, bridges, streets, and highways, (3) necessary contextualizing and interpretations in light of new historical research and scholarship. We are also prioritizing updates to entries and essays that deal with buildings and sites that have changed as a result of extreme weather events.

As always, SAH Archipedia’s editors will work with authors and peer reviewers to maintain the highest standards of a scholarly publication.




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SUSAN LAFLESCHE PICOTTE CENTER

Currently known as the Susan LaFlesche Picotte Center, this building once housed the Dr. Susan Picotte Memorial Hospital. This small hospital, situated on the Omaha Indian Reservation in northeastern Nebraska, was the dream of Susan LaFlesche Picotte, who was a pioneer in providing health care for Native Americans. more

JEFFERS PETROGLYPHS

Red Rock Ridge is a Sioux quartzite, metamorphic rock outcropping along a 23-mile ridge in southwestern Minnesota. It rises out of the tallgrass prairie and is one of the oldest bedrock formations in the state, with sand deposited more than 1.6 billion years ago. The 50 x 300-yard rock face has...more

PIPESTONE NATIONAL MONUMENT VISITOR CENTER

Pipestone National Monument in southwestern Minnesota was established in 1937 to protect the catlinite or “pipestone” quarries, the source for the soft red stone that Native American tribes have used for millennia to make ceremonial pipes. As part of the National Park Service’s...more

PHOENIX INDIAN SCHOOL HISTORIC DISTRICT

In operation from 1891 to 1990, the Phoenix Indian School (PIS) was the second largest Office of Indian Affairs (OIA) boarding school in the United States and the only off-reservation federal Indian boarding school in Arizona. For nearly a century, it played a major role in implementing U.S. Indian Education policy. ... more

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