• current status regarding Draft Director's Order #71A: Government-to-Government Relationships with Tribal Governments  whose purpose is to establish a framework by which the National Park Service will integrate the basic concepts of Federal Indian law and policy into our park and program management activities.  These basic concepts are critical to our relationships with, and responsibilities toward, Federally recognized Indian tribes and Alaska Native groups.
• Individual Presidential statements, memoranda, etc.since 1970 in support of tribal sovereignty and the government-to-government relationship between Federal agencies and Tribal governments.

Documents
Draft DO 71A: Government-to-Government Relationships with Tribal Governments (doc)
Description: Draft Director's Order 71A
President Nixon's Message, 1970 (pdf)
President Reagan's American Indian Policy, 1983 (pdf)
President Bush's Statement, 1991 (pdf)
President Clinton's Memorandum on Government-to-Government Relations (doc)
President Bush's Memorandum on Government-to-Government Relations (doc)

E.O. 13175 Consultation and Coordination

Executive Order 13175, Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments, signed Nov. 6, 2000, published in Federal Register Vol. 65, No. 218, Nov. 9, 2000, pages 67249-67252, is provided below.

Documents
E.O. 13175 Consultation and Coordination.. (pdf)

Webcast of Consultation Training

• To learn more about consultation, invest some time at the on-line training website.  During two days in November 2002, a remarkable set of people offered some insights and practical information on consultation.  See a more detailed description and the website link to the training.

The Law, Cultural Heritage, and Consultation with Native Americans -- with 9 hours of training presentations -- is now available via the Internet in a WEBCAST version at stage.historicpreservation.gov/Training/NativeAmericanConsultation
or see the link below.

A description that provides more information about what this training was, when it was broadcast, who it was intended for, etc. is found in the document below.

Links
The Law, Cultural Heritage and Consultation with Native Americans

Documents
Background information on this training (doc)
 

E.O. 12898 Environmental Justice

Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations, signed Feb. 11, 1994, published in Federal Register Vol. 59, No. 32, Feb. 16, 1994, is provided below.

Information about the Native American Task Force of the Interagency Working Group of federal agencies is provided in the document below.

Documents
E.O. 12898 Environmental Justice (pdf)
Native American Task Force (doc)
Description: This task force was established as one of six to carry out the E.O..

BIA Tribal Leaders Directory 

• Consultation is between people.  The Tribal Leaders Directory offers the telephone numbers and addresses for the Federally recognized tribal leaders in the United States.

You have two ways to obtain the same listing.

The first link is to the Department of the Interior website which should contain the most current information.

Both are offered here as there may be times when the Intranet is working and the Internet is not.

Links
Tribal Leaders Directory on DOI website [current]

Documents
BIA Tribal Leaders Directory, Winter 2008 (pdf)
 

Tribal Consultation:  Best Practices in Historic Preservation

This report, completed in May 2005, with input from National Park Service staff and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, provides food for thought on the subject of tribal consultation. 

Documents
Tribal Consultation -- the report (pdf)
Description: Tribal Consultation: Best Practices in Historic Preservation