Olympic National Park

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The National Park Service Self-Governance

• 2009 Annual Self-Governance Conference
• Orlando, Florida

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The National Park Serviceand Self-Governance

• A SMALL BUT CONSTRUCTIVE
• PROGRAM
• Builds and expands tribal-NPS relationships
• Creates new partnerships
• Fosters new dialogues

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The National Park Serviceand Self-Governance

• Tribal employees do the work of NPS employees
• Tribes work with parks for mutual benefits in
  conservation and development
• Tribes establish a greater tribal presence on
  their ancestral parklands

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Olympic National ParkLower Elwha Klallam Tribe

• Elwha River Ecosystem Restoration
• Removal of two dangerous and outdated dams that
  made sterile, the Elwha River, the heart of the
  Klallam people
• Restore native species of salmon to the Elwha
  River valley

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Olympic National ParkLower Elwha Klallam Tribe

• Tribal fisheries
• Enhanced tribal infrastructure
• Restoration of plants, animals, fish, birds
• Support cultural traditions of the Lower Elwha
  Klallam

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Olympic National ParkLower Elwha Klallam Tribe

• Park and the Tribe share in the benefits of this
  precedent setting project
• On-going Self-Government agreements since 2002
• Planning, design, carrying out mitigation
  measures.
• 5.5 million in Self-Governance agreements to date

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Redwood National ParkYurok Tribe

• Self-Governance Agreements since late 1990s
• Current agreement expected to be renewed annually
  through 2011
• Tribe and Park share boundary and watershed

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Redwood National ParkYurok Tribe

• Last year, more than 700,000 to tribe for
• Watershed restoration
• Archeological site assessment
• Natural resource management

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Grand Portage National Monument Grand Portage
Band of Chippewa Indians

• Fiscal Year 2008 completed 10th annual funding
  agreement
• Tribe employees perform all maintenance
  operations at park with 100 visitor satisfaction.

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Grand Portage National Monument Grand Portage
Band of Chippewa Indians

• In addition, Tribe has completed 42 additional
  special projects and do all design and
  construction planning

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Grand Portage National Monument Grand Portage
Band of Chippewa Indians

• Base increase to the park budget for
  administrative costs for tribal assumption of
  operations activities about 350,000
• More than doubled with special projects, about
  450,000 in 2008
• More importantly, all benefit from tribal
  expertise and increased presence at this park
  inextricably tied to its past and future.

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National Park Service Tribal Governments

• Tribal grants programs for cultural preservation
  
• Tribal Historic Preservation Programs
• NAGPRA grants
• Youth corps programs at parks with or without
  ARRA funds
• Internships

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Department of the InteriorNPS Self-GovernancePoi
nts of Contact

• Patricia Parker, Chief
• National Park Service
• American Indian Liaison Office
• 1201 Eye St. NW, 9th Floor
• Washington, DC 20005
• [phone]
• pat_parker_at_nps.gov

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