The Associated Tribal Nations of Mount Rushmore National Memorial

The Black Hills of South Dakota are an important historical, spiritual, and cultural site to many tribal nations.

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National Park sites are obligated to engage in meaningful consultation and collaboration with tribal nations, particularly when policies, actions, and regulations have direct effects on the nations connected to these sites. This obligation is not only a legal one but an ethical one as well. Many National Park sites occupy spiritually and culturally important places to Native peoples, and possess histories often marred by dispossession and exclusion of Native peoples from these sites. Mount Rushmore National Memorial currently consults with 21 associated tribal nations, whose names and official websites can be found below:

• Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma

• Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

• Crow Creek Sioux Tribe

• Crow Tribe of Montana

• Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation

• Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe

• Fort Belknap Indian Community

• Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes

• Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma

• Lower Brule Sioux Tribe

• Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation

• Northern Cheyenne Tribe

• Oglala Sioux Tribe

• Rosebud Sioux Tribe

• Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska

• Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal Council

• Spirit Lake Tribe

• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota

• Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara)

• Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota

• Yankton Sioux Tribe

For more information on Consultation and Coordination with Tribal Nation Governments, visit the U.S. Department of the Interior Collaboration and Consensus website.