SERVICEWIDE LAWS AND POLICIES - Ethnographic Resources
| Certain contemporary American Indian and other communities are permitted by law, regulation, or policy to pursue customary religious, subsistence, and other cultural uses of park resources with which they are traditionally associated. The National Park Service plans and executes programs in ways that safeguard cultural and natural resources while reflecting informed concern for the contemporary peoples and cultures traditionally associated with those resources. | |
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Desired Condition: Ethnographic information will be collected through collaborative research that recognizes the sensitive nature of such information. |
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Desired Condition: All agencies shall accommodate access to and ceremonial use of Indian sacred sites by Indian religious practitioners, and avoid adversely affecting the physical integrity of these sacred sites. |
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Desired Condition: The National Park Service acknowledges that American Indian tribes, including native Alaskans, treat specific places containing certain natural and cultural resources as sacred places having established religious meaning, and as locales of private ceremonial activities. Consistent with E.O. 13007, the Service will, to the extent practicable, accommodate access to and ceremonial use of Indian sacred sites by religious practitioners from recognized American Indian and Alaskan native tribes, and avoid adversely affecting the physical integrity of such sacred sites. |
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Desired Condition: Other federal agencies, state and local governments, potentially affected Native American and other communities, interest groups, State Historic Preservation Officer, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation will be given opportunities to become informed about and comment on anticipated NPS actions at the earliest practicable time. |
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Desired Condition: Certain research data may be withheld from public disclosure to protect sensitive or confidential information about archeological, historic, or other NPS resources when doing so would be consistent with FOIA. In many circumstances, this will allow the NPS to withhold information about ethnographic resources. |
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Desired Condition: Native Americans and other individuals and groups linked by ties of kinship or culture to ethnically identifiable human remains will be consulted when remains may be disturbed or are encountered on park lands. |
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