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Open Letter to Congress from National Coalition to Protect and Strengthen Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act

On Thursday, August 27th, an unprecedented coalition of 600+ public, private, and nonprofit-sector organizations representing 5 million Americans, sent an open letter to call on...

Greg Werkheiser on the Rachel Maddow Show

Greg Werkheiser, co-founder of Cultural Heritage Partners PLLC, appeared as a guest on the Rachel Maddow Show last night to discuss the unprecedented coalition of...

Help Save Section 106

Call to Action! We are calling on all of you to meet in person with your U.S. Representative and Senators (or more likely, their staff),...

Interior’s New Secretarial Order Won’t Speed Up Development. It Will Slow It Down.

Interior’s New Secretarial Order Won’t Speed Up Development. It Will Slow It Down. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act rests on a simple...

Jessie Barrington Speaks at the IAC about Trespass on Indian Agricultural Land

Today at the Intertribal Agriculture Council’s Eastern Region Summit in Richmond, VA, Jessie Barrington (Chair of CHP’s Tribal Nations Practice) broke down “Trespass on Indian...

Fourth Circuit Denies Government Petition for Rehearing

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska v. United States Department of the Army On Tuesday, August 11th, a federal appeals court cleared the way for the Winnebago...

Federal Court Finds Lummi Nation Likely to Succeed in Lawsuit over Disturbance of Ancestral Burial Sites

Court Orders Advance Notice Before Any Further Ground-Disturbing Work in Point Roberts BELLINGHAM, WA, UNITED STATES, July 16, 2026 A federal judge yesterday granted significant...

CHP Announces Charles Curlett, Jr. to Lead Litigation Group

Former Manhattan Prosecutor and Federal Trial Lawyer Brings Deep Trial Experience to Firm’s Expanding National Docket Washington, DC — June 9, 2026 — Cultural Heritage...

New Lummi Nation Court Filing Deepens Story of Desecration of Burials at Point Roberts

New Lummi Nation Court Filing Deepens Story of Desecration of Burials at Point Roberts SEATTLE, WA — May 7, 2026 — Ten days after filing...

Lummi Nation Court Filing Deepens Story of Desecration of Burials at Point Roberts

SEATTLE, WA — May 7, 2026 — Ten days after filing a complaint in federal court, Lummi Nation today filed dozens of pages of additional...

Lummi Nation Files Federal Lawsuit Over Repeated Trenching Through Ancestral Burial Grounds

Lummi Nation Files Federal Lawsuit Over Repeated Trenching Through Ancestral Burial Grounds Seattle, WA – April 28, 2026 – The Lummi Nation has filed a...

ACHP Review of Section 106 Regulations

Action Alert: ACHP Launches Major Review of Section 106 Regulations The Trump Administration’s stated goals to “streamline” permitting and “modernize” regulations came to historic preservation...