(a) The Tribe finds and declares that it wishes to protect cultural resources and to establish a systematic process to implement that protection.

(b) The Tribal Council has directed various Tribal departments and committees to preserve, promote, and protect cultural resources. In turn, the cultural resource missions of the various Tribal departments and committees with cultural resource functions is to carry out the Yurok Tribe’s commitment to preserve, archive, protect, document, restore, return, reinter and promote the culture, heritage, language, and religion of the Yurok people.

(c) Therefore, the Tribal Council adopts this cultural resources protection ordinance to protect and promote the political integrity, economic security, health, safety and welfare of the Tribe, its members, and all persons living on or passing through the Yurok Reservation; and to protect and preserve the environment, lands, culture and resources of the Tribe, wherever those resources may exist. [Ord. 22 § 3, amended, 9/9/2009.]