The National Park Service and the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association recently finalized a new five-year agreement that aims to facilitate regular, robust and meaningful dialogue between the NPS and Native American tribes.
“Native American tribes have ancestral connections to public lands that pre-date the formation of the National Park Service by millennia,” said Sherry L. Rupert, CEO of AIANTA. “These wholly unique perspectives can serve as the foundation for one-of-a-kind cultur...