The White Mountain Apache Tribe Cultural Heritage Resource Best Management Practices (WMATCHRBMPs) present and delineate in guideline form cultural heritage resource definitions, management, and necessary steps before, during, and after project implementation for any ground-disturbing projects potentially adversely affecting cultural heritage resources on Ndee (Apache) trust lands. However, since the tribe’s adoption of the practices, the application of Ndee tenets found within the guidelines to real-world cultural and archaeological methods and practices remains scant. Embedded in the Ndee cultural tenets is the tenet of “respect,” which I will argue can be used as a tool by non-Ndee researchers to critically reflect on their own research agendas and to guide research projects with Ndee communities. By foregrounding respect within various ongoing archaeological project-related occurrences, contemporary Ndee experiences, defining Ndee material trait lists, superiority statements, archaeological categorizations, and stereotypical underpinnings, better paths forward for collaborative research with Ndee and other Native American communities can be highlighted.

怀特山阿帕奇部落文化遗产资源最佳管理规范（WMATCHRBMP）会在准则实施之前，期间和之后针对任何可能对文化遗产资源造成不利影响的文化遗产资源定义，管理和必要步骤，以指南的形式介绍和描述在Ndee（Apache）信任土地上。但是，自从部落采用这种做法以来，在准则中发现的Ndee原则在现实世界中的文化和考古方法与实践中的应用仍然很少。Ndee文化宗旨中蕴含的是“尊重”的宗旨，我认为这可以被非Ndee用作工具。研究人员批判性地反思自己的研究议程，并指导Ndee社区的研究项目。通过在各种正在进行的与考古项目相关的事件中引起尊重，当代Ndee经验，定义Ndee物质特征清单，优势陈述，考古分类和陈规定型基础，可以突出与Ndee和其他美洲原住民社区进行合作研究的更好途径。