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<br />because they were traditionally used or are currently used in ceremonies, as medicines, <br />and in daily living. (Jackson, 1993; Lomaomvaya, 1999; Southern Paiute Consortium and <br />Bureau of Applied Research, 1997). Above and beyond these individual resources, <br />however, the Tribes value Grand Canyon as a whole for its uniquely important role in <br />their Nations' histories and spiritual lives. <br />Since the mid 1990s, three of the five tribal entities participating in the GCD- <br />AMP (Southern Paiute Consortium, Hualapai, and Hopi) have monitored some of their <br />traditionally-valued resources at selected locations in the river corridor in conjunction <br />with annual tribal river trips funded by the DOl agencies through the GCD-AMP. <br />Methods are highly variable between the various programs, as one would expect given <br />the diverse cultural backgrounds and interests of the Tribes involved in the AMP. <br />In 2001, GCMRC attempted to engage the Tribes in the development of a long- <br />term terrestrial ecosystem monitoring program (TEM) to incorporate tribal needs for <br />information about non-Register eligible plant and animal resources of cultural <br />importance. This attempt met with only limited success. Although representatives from <br />Southern Paiute, Hualapai, and Hopi attended most TEM meetings, and representatives <br />from Hopi and the Southern Paiute Consortium participated on TEM river trips, only the <br />Hopi Tribe provided specific input to GCMRC about how current data collection <br />strategies could be modified or supplemented to meet their specific needs for <br />information. Hualapai and Southern Paiute representatives indicated that their needs <br />could not be met through the TEM program as currently designed, because the resources <br />of interest to them are tied to specific, culturally important locations in the river corridor, <br />while the TEM program relies on a randomly selected sample of study sites, none of <br />which overlap with specific locations of interest to the Tribes. <br />Currently, three of five tribal entities engaged in the GCD-AMP are conducting <br />monitoring programs of one kind or another in the CRE. Most of these programs monitor <br />one or more tribally-identified TCPs, plus archaeological sites, plant and mineral <br />resources. In April, 2005, representatives from these three tribes met with staff from <br />GCMRC and NAU's Center for Sustainable Environments over the course of a three day <br />workshop to articulate the goals and objectives of current tribal monitoring programs and <br />receive feedback on how to align tribal monitoring objectives more closely with those the <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />