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  • August

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    Workshop fosters communication between tribal, state, and federal agencies

    The Blue Lake workshop on August 13 was the fifth iteration of the Flood Preparedness and Emergency Management Resources Workshop for Tribes set up and run this summer by Sacramento District.

  • September

    Grave markers located at the cemetery on Carlisle Barracks show where the remains of two Arapaho children were located and disinterred in August 2017. The marked area around the buried remains represents the excavation area.

    Corps helps return Native American remains

    A team of experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently helped return the remains of two children to their Northern Arapaho tribe. The children had died at Carlisle Indian industrial School in the 1880s and were buried in a cemetery on what is now Carlisle Barracks, in Pennsylvania.

  • March

    Mark Gilfillan, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District tribal liaison is photographed near his office in Grand Junction, Colo.

    Gilfillan helps bridge cultures of Native Americans and Army engineers

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel returning from deployments to Afghanistan bring home a richer cultural awareness – and their experience talking to village elders can improve stateside relationship building with Native American tribes, says Mark Gilfillan, Corps Sacramento District tribal liaison.