Working With Tribes To Co-Steward National Parks

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of Short Wave's Summer Road Trip series exploring the science happening in national parks and public lands, Aaron talks to National Park Service Director Charles Sams, who recently issued new policy guidance to strengthen the ways the park service collaborates with American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes, the Native Hawaiian Community, and other indigenous peoples. It's part of a push across the federal government to increase the level of tribal co-stewardship over public lands. Aaron talks with Sams, the first Tribal citizen to head the agency, about how he hopes this will change the way parks are managed, how the parks are already incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and what national parkland meant to him growing up as a member of the Cayuse and Walla Walla tribes on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon.

Listen to more episodes about all the amazing research taking place on public lands, where we hike up sky islands and crawl into caves in search of fantastical creatures, by visiting the series website: https://www.npr.org/series/1120432990/road-trip-short-wave

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Julian Roque, teacher and your teacher at the Helaclyft-Dwellingst National
0:05.1	Monument to New Mexico.
0:07.1	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:11.8	Hey Shortwaveers, today marks the last day of summer, which means we are at the end of
0:18.3	our summer road trip series.
0:20.3	We've crawled into caves.
0:21.8	We have hiked up Sky Islands.
0:23.6	We have listened to volcanoes and the sound of silence.
0:27.4	We've explored all sorts of amazing research taking place in our national parks and public
0:31.7	lands.
0:32.7	And we wanted to end with something big.
0:36.2	Well, good day.
0:37.2	My name is Chuck Sam.
0:38.2	I'm the National Park Service Director of the United States.
0:40.8	So we called up the head of the park service himself because there's some big news of
0:45.4	foot.
0:46.4	On September 13, Chuck Sam's issued a policy to strengthen the ways the park service
0:51.5	collaborates with American Indian and Alaska native tribes with the Native Hawaiian community
0:57.4	and with other indigenous peoples.
0:59.7	The charge under treaties, the treaty tribes, which I come from one, is that the federal
1:05.6	government must consult with the tribe.
1:07.4	We used to call it drive by consulting, which means we either got a letter or we got a
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