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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Midwest Region, developed the following video as a tool to help our employees better understand our trust responsibilities as a federal agency for working with Indian Tribes.
A unique relationship exists between Native American Tribes and the United States Government; and, this relationship has important implications for the Service and the work that we do.
This video is the newest tool developed to help us all better understand what our responsibilities are, how this applies to the work we do, and how we can work together to meet our shared goals.
- As Indian Tribes relinquished their land, this resulted in the creation of treaties between the Tribes and the U.S. Government. As a result, a “Trust Responsibility” was developed
- Requirements of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to interact with Tribes in good faith by:
- Follow through on commitments
- Consulting with Tribes
- Implementing Tribal-specific components of statutes and executive orders
- Assisting Tribes to meet priorities
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- Tribal Self Determination and sovereignty
- Government to government relationships
- Tribal consultation requirements of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reach out to assist Tribes in your area of responsibility
- Collaborate on projects of mutual interest
- Keep Tribes in mind when making decisions
- Support Tribal natural resource management capacity and priorities
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- Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Tribal consultation will always require understanding each Tribes specific resource needs
- Tribal subsistence and sport harvest is not always undertaken with the same management concerns
- To help build Tribal capacity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service needs to:
- Provide technical assistance
- Provide training in resource management techniques and law enforcement
- Provide funding support as available
- Significance of the concept “Species of Concern” in Tribal culture
- Subsistence hunting, fishing and gathering
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