This workshop addresses the challenge of underrepresentation of sites associated with minority groups and cultures. Despite the well-recognized issue of minority histories being notably absent from heritage lists, accurate and up-to-date data on the extent and distribution of these discrepancies is lacking, as well as low-cost and low-impact methods for identifying and documenting these resources.

This workshop will first present information based on NEH funded research quantifying this preservation gap, exploring possible reasons behind any discrepancies, and identifying potential solutions.

Next, presenters show how small-scale mapping projects can enlist diverse heritage stewards in preservation of cultural landscapes they know and care about.

Demonstrations of multiple methods (oral history, memory mapping, and map editing) invite discussion of how to generate multiple forms of knowledge that deepen historical understandings while facilitating broad participation in heritage work (e.g. elders to their youthful descendants).