ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on issues with which tribes are concerned day-to-day when participating in the cultural resources management process for which Section 106 of the Act and associated implementing regulations, provides a framework. It examines the observations gained over several decades of working for and with tribes in National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section 106 matters and explores a few of the fundamental things that underpin the nature of the engagement of federally recognized American-Indian tribes with the NHPA. The chapter discusses the thousands of small and medium-sized projects that take up the majority of a tribe's time, between reviewing and responding to notifications, examining informational materials, and evaluating and discussing project impacts. The Great Unconformity also became the metaphor for the sea change in the formation of the nation's archaeological record and for the control of that record by non-native laws and institutions.
