The course addresses cultural resources and overarching laws and regulations that define significance, mandate management, and prescribe treatment. Students will learn the various types of cultural resource categories and their attributes, quality and values. Students receive an overview of Corps planning and management actions that have the potential to affect cultural resources. Focus on the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, the Archeological Resources Protection Act of 1979, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act as well as other statutory requirements introduces students to regulatory responsibilities. This course gives special consideration to the procedural requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA and the interrelationships of the agency, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the State Historic Preservation Office, and officials of Indian tribes with the opportunity to apply knowledge to case studies.The program also offers an overview of the nature of Corps relations with Indian tribes including an understanding of the Trust relationship, government-to-government relations, treatment of Native American human remains and associated objects and Indian access to sacred sites. State-of-the-art field techniques, methodologies regional overviews, and data management are illustrated.