In seeking to support Native American cultures and communities, collections management professionals have cultivated a wealth of ideas, responses and plans on how to facilitate Native American traditional care within museum collection spaces. Traditional care is broadly defined as non-Western practices of conserving, storing and caring for objects and often reflect the sacred or spiritual significance of an object. My master's project explores the diversity of methods collections management professionals use when facilitating some of the more challenging Native American traditional care requests (such as smudging, feeding and gender restrictions) and assesses how the integration of these practices is changing the collections management profession. My conclusions, based on literature and professional conference reviews, policy analysis as well as interviews with Native American and non-Native American collections professionals working in U.S anthropology and natural history museums, indicate changes within the larger collections management profession. In particular, collections management professionals are increasingly consulting Native American communities, modifying traditional care methods, adopting written procedures and policies, and are also planning for the future. By presenting my research at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums in October 2002, my project seeks to assist collections management professionals in integrating Native American traditional care practices within museum collections spaces in meaningful ways.