2025 Tribal Lands and Environment Forum
2025 Tribal Lands and Environment Forum
For the fifteenth annual Tribal Lands and Environment Forum we gathered in Minneapolis, MN as well as online. Please enjoy these many excellent presentations including our featured keynote speakers:
- Opening Plenary: Shannon Kesner, Director of Tribal Affairs, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- Cultivating Collective Impact: Lessons from Dakota Homelands: Sam Olbekson, White Earth Nation and Full Circle Indigenous Planning & Design
- Closing Plenary: Maggie Lorenz, Executive Director of Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi
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This talk explores the presence and impact of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in harvestable goods—such as fish, maple sap, arrowhead, and wild…
“Forever Chemicals” in Traditional…
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This session will discuss how to utilize simple technology to combat illegal dumping and how to utilize simple technology to reduce contamination in both curbside waste…
“Talking Trash”: Trash Talk in Isleta…
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The intended audience is Tribes who are engaged in or interested in Tribal plant and seed growing operations for restoration work. It will be a panel discussion with one…
A Discussion with Tribal Plant and Seed Growers…
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What is important to know?Brownfields legislative updates Abandoned Tank cleanups and what you can do to assess UST sites to ready them for development ASTM on Moving…
Abandoned Tanks, Moving Sites to Closure, and…
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EPA estimated that in 2018 in the U.S., more food reached landfills than any other single material in our everyday trash (24 percent of the amount landfilled).…
Advantages of Composting Waste: A Closer Look at…
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Artificial Intelligence is a technology innovation that is gaining momentum and popularity in our daily lives and in the environmental field. AI can be a powerful tool…
Artificial Intelligence and Environmental…
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Presented by Tribal TAB and KSU TAB, this session will demonstrate how the Brownfields Inventory Tool (BiT) can serve as a robust project management platform and a tool…
Beyond Inventory: Using BiT for Tribal Project…
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The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Branch of Environmental Services will provide a program overview of support areas. The Branch protects, manages, and enhances…
BIA Branch of Environmental Services: Program…
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Join this dynamic session highlighting success stories from EPA Brownfields Job Training grantees who have forged effective partnerships with tribes to create impactful…
Brownfields Job Training Grantee Success Stories
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Zoom Recording ID: 89383799541 UUID: HPkVidGzTHOwlQTTXGIn9g== Meeting Time: 2025-08-19 03:06:27pmGMT
Building Capacity Through Tribal Grant…
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ANTHC's Tribal Capacity Program works directly with Tribes to help build capacity within their communities. We do this by:Providing technical assistance to Tribes.…
Building Tribal Capacity in Alaska
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This session will focus on current topics in Federal Indian Law and administrative regulatory law. This includes current Supreme Court opinions regarding tribal…
Case Law Review: The Future of Indian Law and…
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Featuring our annual free raffle of gifts from Native Nations, closing comments from ITEP and Tracy Horst, vice-chair of the Tribal Waste & Response Steering…
Closing Plenary
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