cultural resources department
Hello and Welcome to the Fort Peck Tribes Cultural Resources Department website! Our mission is to maintain and inspire the traditional values that relate to the Dakota and Nakoda way of life for its people through established principles: Culture, History, Language, and Life.
The Fort
Peck Tribes Cultural Resources Department (CRD) program was established
in 1995 to meet the Reservation's obligations concerning cultural resources,
and to manage the museum as a repository. The program has two primary objectives:
Support the Reservation's museum, and to be good environmental stewards.
These objectives are met through the inventory, evaluation, and management
of cultural resources in a manner congruent with Federal legislation, and
through strong tribal outreach and research programs.
The Cultural Resources Department manages a diverse array of cultural properties.
Prehistoric remains, which outline all of the established chronological
periods of prehistory, include hunter-gatherer camps, resource processing
areas, quarries (lithic), rockshelters, and rock art (petroglyphs and pictographs).
Historic remains include cairns, mining sites, cemeteries, campsites, homesteading
sites, roads, residential sites, ranching sites, water storage sites, and
structural sites. Some
of the major activities of the Cultural
Resources Department are:
Overall Cultural Resources Management, Historical Buildings and Structures,
Protection of Archaeological and Traditional Cultural Properties, Curation,
Education and Awareness, Community Relations, Cultural Resources Compliance,
Museum Management, and Tourism.
