Cultural Heritage – Tribal Consultation

Federally recognized Indian tribes are sovereign nations exercising governing administration-to-government relations with the United States. Wherever the general public lands are involved, these relations normally choose the form of lawfully demanded session, and in most day-to-day consultations with tribes, the BLM subject office environment manager serves as the formal representative of the United States.

For the BLM, the important reason for Native American session is to determine the cultural values, the spiritual beliefs, the traditional techniques, and the lawful legal rights of Native American people today, which could be afflicted by BLM actions on community lands.

Tribal consultation pertaining to general public-land pursuits has 4 critical factors:

• Determining acceptable tribal governing bodies and people from whom to request enter.
• Chatting with correct tribal officers and/or folks and inquiring for their views with regards to land use proposals or other pending BLM steps that could possibly have an effect on common tribal pursuits, practices, or beliefs relating to individual locations on community lands.
• Managing tribal data as a required variable in defining the vary of satisfactory community-land administration possibilities.
• Developing and maintaining a long term report to exhibit how tribal details was received and employed in the BLM’s selection producing procedure.

Extra facts is obtainable in the 1780 Tribal Relations Handbook and 1780 Tribal Relations Handbook.