Includes bibliographical references and index.

The context of private conservation -- Environmental justice and tribal conservation -- Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council (California) -- Native American land conservancy (California/national) -- The art and science of creating a 501(c)(3) Native American land conservancy / Kurt Russo -- Mitigation of tribal development : Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation (California) -- Senate Bill 18 (Burton) and mitigation of non-tribal development : Morongo band of Mission Indians (California) -- Developing cultural conservation easements : Little Traverse Bay bands of Odawa Indians (Michigan) -- Native nonprofits and petitioning tribes : Tsi-Akim Maidu (California) -- Alaska native lands : Kachemak Heritage Land Trust (Alaska) and Nushagak-Mulchatna Wood-Tikchik Land Trust (Alaska) -- Land purchases and fee-to-trust considerations : Jamestown S'klallam tribe (Washington) -- Land purchases and fee-to-trust considerations : eastern band of Cherokee Indians (North Carolina) -- Watershed protection : Nisqually Indian tribe (Washington) -- Partnerships for native land management : Cache Creek conservancy tending and gathering garden (California) -- Tribal resource conservation districts, the Coarsegold Resource Conservation District, and the Susanville Indian Rancheria (California).