Overview of the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Program
The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers will provide a history and overview of the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) program created in the 1992 amendments to the National Historic Preservation Act. Since 2012 only one tribe in Alaska, the Organized Village of Kake, operates a THPO program. NATHPO will share the positive and healing experiences that the THPO program has brought about in various tribal communities.