What are cultural resources?

A cultural resource can be anything that facilitates a person's sense of cultural belonging and identity.

Some examples are:

• Historic sites (logging era, homesteads, CCC camps)
• Prehistoric sites (Pre-European contact sites)
  
• Stories, Legends, Folklore
• Historic Documents
• Oral Histories
  Culturally Important Landscapes
• Traditional Cultural Properties (sugar camps, wild rice camps, hunting camps, spiritual sites)
• Culturally Important Natural Resources (moose, deer, wild rice, medicinal plants)

 

Public lands within the 1854 Ceded Territory are subject to federal and state laws protecting cultural resources. Tribes have a special government to government relationship with these land holders. Bands have a right to consult with government agencies to ensure that cultural sites are protected.

The 1854 Treaty Authority has been working to:

• Compile information on cultural resources within the 1854 Ceded Territory
• Assist in consultation with other agencies to ensure tribal concerns are addressed
• Cooperate in and complete field projects