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John Ross, long-time leader of the Cherokee Nation, was born on October 3, 1790, in Cherokee territory now part of Alabama. He grew up near

John Marshall was born on September 24, 1755, in Germantown, Virginia. Following service in the Revolutionary War, he attended a course of law


Indian Sacred Sites and NPS
Executive Order 13007, Indian Sacred Sites, signed in 1996, directs Federal land managing agencies
  • to accommodate access to and ceremonial use of sacred sites located on public lands to Indian religious practitioners.
  • to avoid adversely affecting the physical integrity of such sacred sites, and
  • to develop and implement procedures for the purposes of carrying out this executive order
  • to identify changes needed to accommodate access and ceremonial use or to avoid adversely affecting sacred sites, and
  • procedures for consultation with appropriate Indian tribes and religious leaders and the resolution of dispures relating to agency action on Federal lands that may adversely affect access to, ceremonial use of, or the physical integrity of sacred sites.

Documents
Executive Order 13007 (pdf)

Our office, in consultation with a team from the field, drafted a summary of guidance for carrying out this executive order.

Documents
Summary of Draft Management Guidelines (doc)

A compendium of Federal agency memoranda, policies, guidance and statutes on Native American Sacred Places and Cultural Properties has been compiled and is available at this website < http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/ih/codetalk/topics/compendium.cfm >

Code Talk is a federal interagency Native American Web Site designed specifically to deliver electronic information from government agencies and other organizations to Native American Communities.  Code Talk is hosted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Native American Programs.  http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/ih/codetalk/index.cfm

A nationally recognized social worker, community organizer, activist, and political leader, Ada Deer is a champion of Indian rights

Billy Frank, Jr. of the Nisqually Indian Tribe, has been Chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) for

William O. Douglas was born in Maine, Minnesota, on October 16, 1898, and raised in Yakima, Washington. He entered Whitman College in

 

 

John Echohawk, a member of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, has served as the Executive Director of the

 

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