; (2) Indians Tribes and members of Indian Tribes— (A) have maintained historical, religious, and spiritual connections to land now designated as public land; (B) continue to exercise treaty rights on public land; and (C) use public land to pray, conduct ceremonies, visit burial sites, gather plants, and undertake other traditional cultural activities; (3) treaties, Executive orders, court decisions, and Federal laws and regulations— (A) acknowledge the rights of Indian Tribes and members of Indian Tribes on public land; and (B) require public land managers to consult with Indian Tribes prior to taking action that would impact those rights; and (4) efforts to commercially develop or transfer ownership of public land often ignore the rights and protections of Indian Tribes and have resulted in— (A) the desecration of sacred sites; (B) the diminishment of Tribal treaty rights; and (C) the mismanagement of sacred sites, including the looting of sacred objects and burial sites and the diminishment of harvests of traditional native plants used in religious ceremonies and for other purposes. 4. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the preservation of Tribal cultural sites located on public land is in the public interest; (2) through their unique history and traditional knowledge, Indian Tribes have an important role in managing Tribal cultural sites on public land; and (3) Tribal cultural sites on public land should be permanently protected for the benefit of Indian Tribes. 5. Tribal Cultural Areas System (a) Establishment In order to preserve Tribal cultural sites on public land, there is established the Tribal Cultural Areas System. (b) Purposes The purposes of the System are— (1) to preserve opportunities for Indian Tribes to undertake religious, cultural, spiritual, medicinal, or traditional practices within Tribal cultural sites; (2) to permanently protect the religious, cultural, spiritual, scenic, ecological, medicinal, and traditional values of Tribal cultural sites