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Established by the Navajo Nation Council, the Navajo Nation Archaeology Department is the Nation's agency responsible for providing cultural resource services (not compliance review) to project sponsors. These sponsors include the Dine people, tribal government entities, other government agencies, and industry in need of cultural resource services on lands of historical Dine interest. The Department will fulfill these needs in accordance with all applicable federal, tribal, and state laws and regulations. In support of this mission we are committed to:

• Protecting and conserving the Navajo Nation's cultural resources and Dine cultural heritage in a manner consistent with Dine cultural values, while also facilitating needed infrastructure growth and development.
• Becoming the leading provider of high quality, innovative, cultural resource services on Navajo Nation lands and in surrounding areas of traditional interest.
• Forming and maintaining strategic working relationships with Dine communities and project sponsors through diversified marketing, and public outreach in a fashion that is both culturally sensitive and scientifically valid.
• Being responsive to the needs of the Dine people, our clients, and partners by soliciting and considering public input, and through providing reliable, timely professional service.
• Maintaining the Department's national leadership in indigenous cultural resource management by sustaining and improving the Student Training Program, and continued placement of qualified Dine into management positions.
• Becoming self suffcient, thus allowing the Navajo Nation to maintain its sovereign capability to manage its cultural resources and protect Dine cultural heritage through the Department.
• Providing a safe and respectful work environment that nurtures professional interaction, job satisfaction, and the growth needs of our employees.