Welcome to the National Tribal Caucus website

The Environmental Protection Agency’s mission is to protect human health and the environment. And, according to the EPA’s 1984 Indian Policy, the keynote of this effort is to give special consideration to tribal interests in making Agency policy; and to ensure the close involvement of tribal governments in making decisions and managing environmental programs affecting reservation lands.

The National Tribal Caucus consists of 19 tribal leaders or their environmental program managers. The National Tribal Caucus and Regional Tribal Operations Committees (RTOC’s) are critical partners in the Agency’s ability to establish and implement policies that affect tribes.

This website serves as a central location for information vital to the environmental interests of the EPA National Tribal Caucus (NTC) and member tribes. While general information will be made available to the public, much of the Caucus information is of a sensitive nature and shall be made available only to NTC members and member tribes.

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.”

Chief Seattle, 1854