Name: Joshua Jones
Organization: Red Lake Department of Natural Resources
Address: 1007 Bemidji Ave N Bemidji, MN 56601
Email: joshua.jones@redlakenation.org
Phone: (218) 407-3143

1. How do you help your community?

I am the Hydrologist for the Red Lake Nation DNR, my job primarily focuses on protecting, monitoring and preserving our water resources. I also direct the internship program within the DNR and through that I have hired many interns leading some to careers and job opportunities in natural resources and assisted in a transition for students into higher learning.

2. How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

One of the biggest benefits to interns that work here at the DNR is the experience gives them a baseline understanding of the natural resource field and potential career paths that it offers. Also, how the work performed here at the DNR benefits the sustainability of the resources for the Red Lake Nation as well as the overall benefit to the community here.

3. How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

The intern will able to work alongside career professionals in the natural resource field. This opportunity will allow them to explore potential careers in natural resource and will have the ability to ask for advice on an educational path that would lead them into a desired natural resource career field.

4. List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

The intern will be rotated through each program within the DNR; Water Resources, Wildlife, Forestry, Fishery, and Air Quality/Brownfields. They will participate in the day-to-day job responsibilities for each program and learn the work requirements to complete the daily work.

5. Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

The intern would need to be able to commute to Red Lake on a daily basis, able to spend entire days in outdoor settings, and be able to perform moderate physical activity.

Name: Sharon James
Organization: 4-Directions Development
Email: sjames@4directionsrl.org
Phone: 218-849-4252
Address: P.O. Box 1020, Red Lake, MN 56671

1. How do you help your community?

We are a nonprofit providing entrepreneurship development for the Red Lake Nation. We work specifically with education, technical assistance, financing, and commercial development. We also have a focus on artist development and farmer development for the ag industry.

2. How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

We have a diverse opportunity to share learning in the areas of entrepreneurship, the arts, and food sovereignty.  If the following food sovereignty project is not selected, we can also do an internship in either the entrepreneurial or arts arena.

Our Project Grow program assists individual households with growing a family garden; with a future goal of finding those interested in becoming a farmer. We have found many gardens not producing well due to depletion of minerals in their garden soil. This year we will be looking at providing organic soil amendments to improve the quality of their soil. We will also provide each household with growing information and provide community training sessions on gardening.

3. How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

We have extensive tools the intern could learn with; our Training Garden, development of a Farm Incubator, a high tunnel, a greenhouse, a pollinator garden, and our training workshops.  We also have staff that have been working with our foods system development since 2016, who will share their knowledge and experiences.

The intern will also have the opportunity to interact and learn from community members on traditional gardening, the Ojibwe culture, and working with diversity.

4. List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

They will assist with data collection as we continue to update our participating household information; and will assist with creating and sharing gardening and farming information with those participating households.  Do a couple follow ups with participating households by email, mail, phone or site visit to gather data and obtain feedback.

Assist Foods Business Developer with implementing our soil amendment plan for each of the household gardens, and monitoring and documenting the impact of those amendments.

Assist with the Gardening Contest; gathering data on harvest counts and before and after picture documentation.

5. Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

Must be able to work on computer; and Microsoft Office, Excel, and willing to document your time and activities.

There will be work outside, working with garden soil, may need to lift and/or carry 40 or 50 pounds. Gardening is labor intensive, so some manual labor may be needed; such as shoveling and raking.  Please make us aware of any allergies.  Transportation is needed for house to house interaction, but we can provide if needed.

Must continue to maintain safe distancing and safe practices as recommended for COVID-19.

Name: Kate Hagsten
Organization: Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
Email: kate.hagsten@llojibwe.net
Phone: (218) 335-7442
Address: 190 Sailstar Drive NW, Cass Lake, MN 56633

1. How do you help your community?

We work on several projects across the communities. Invasive species, native plant community monitoring, forestry measurement, blueberry monitoring, aquatic plant research, and herbarium maintenance.

2. How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

We are looking for a student with an eye for journalism to document the work being done on our projects. We often only have enough staff to do the work. We are looking for someone that can tell our story. Will spend several days with different field crews taking pictures of the work in progress. Taking videos and doing interviews.

If time allows we encourage our student to do interviews with community members to talk about the role plants have had in their lives.

3. How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

Our student will be exposed to research surrounding plant restoration and monitoring. They will be taught how we as a department work to protect our plant relatives.

4. List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

Student would need to report to the DRM promptly at 6am so they can spend the day in the field with crews. Days are typically 10 hours days. This is subject to change depending on what stage we are at in the project and dependent on the crew. Some of our crews work 8am – 4:30.

5. Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

Student will need to get to the DRM in Cass Lake. Transportation to the field from there will be covered. If students have allergies they should be ready to encounter stinging bugs in the field/sunscreen and proper footwear for being in thick forested, or wet areas.

Student can do on the job learning to operating our camera, tripod, and voice recording equipment.

Name: Faith Ahlgreen
Organization: Niijii Radio
Email: Faithahlgreen@niijiiradio.com
Phone: 218/375-2012
Address: 607 main ave  Callaway mn 56521

1 How do you help your community?

We Broadcast live events in the community, Host community events with music art and culture to bring the community together and our programming brings news, local events language and culture to our listeners.

2 How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

Learn skills to create cultural programing and contribute to community events with the station.

3 How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

We can teach them broadcasting / communication skills, interview skills and culture.

4 List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

Recording , editing, interviewing, going on the air live and research for programing.

5 Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

We  are non-profit community radio station that serves the White Earth reservation and surrounding communities. Interest in communication and or music. Possibly some travel.

Name: Marne Kaeske
Organization: 1854 Treaty Authority
Email: mkaeske@1854treatyauthority.org
Phone: (218) 722-8907
Address: 4428 Haines Rd. Duluth, MN 55811

1 How do you help your Community?

The 1854 Treaty Authority is charged with implementing and protecting off-reservation hunting, fishing, gathering for the Bois Forte and Grand Portage Tribal governments. Our primary role is supporting enrollees in treaty harvest. The organization’s Education and Outreach Division was established in 2015 specifically to encourage, empower and recruit more Tribal harvesters, as well as raise awareness of Federal trust responsibility among the public and governmental agency personnel. Educational programming is designed and implemented to engage Tribal youth and families in traditional and adapted skills, practices and methods integral to preserving subsistence culture.

2. How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

My hope is that a Niizho intern could shadow, work together with, and essentially be mentored by 1854 Education/Outreach staff by contributing their skills, ideas and personality to the summer 2023 programming implemented by our team.

3. How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

Essentially, the opportunity to “try it out for size”. The best experience (training) is learned on the job. Niizho interns paired up with 1854 will have the chance to design and implement programming along-side other professionals. This experience also includes meeting a variety of natural resource management staff throughout different agencies to broaden their network. The community and working relationship of cultural preservation staff is a welcoming one, and a positive learning environment.

4. List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

• Join an 1854 biologist for a day assisting in fieldwork (monitoring fish, game, manoomin etc)
• Attend a safety training or continuing education/refresher course (canoe safety, first aid/CPR, Firearm safety/hunter education certification training instruction, archeology field school)
• Develop curriculum and lead educational programming on any content associated with awareness, skills, safety and/or certifications of treaty harvest and culturally significant beings and landscapes (Tribal and non-Tribal audiences)
• Record, edit and publish media (social media, informational films, interview recordings)
• Provide outreach at events to spread the word on stewardship initiatives, environmental awareness, etc.
• Assist with development of printed materials; writing, editing and layout (organization quarterly newsletter and/or youth publication)
• Assist staff in chaperoning youth camps; provide leadership and support for participants (Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minong/Isle Royale National Park, Voyageurs National Park)

5. Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

Your project could be working outdoors in a variety of environments and weather conditions (heat, cold, wind, rain, bugs). A background check is required for interns involved in youth programming (as per 1854 Treaty Authority volunteer policy). Work may require learning and/or following cultural ways of respect. Transportation to and from the 1854 Treaty Authority Duluth-office is needed, but transportation to and from field sites is provided.

Name: Brett Ballavance
Organization: Stantec Consulting Services Inc
Email: brett.ballavance@stantec.com
Phone: (218) 393-4085
Address: 11 East Superior Street, Suite 330 Duluth, Minnesota 55802

1 How do you help your community?

We are an environmental engineering consulting company that works for municipalities (including tribal governments) and industrial/commercial clients to assist with environmental permitting, environmental compliance and environmental restoration.

2. How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

Our focus area for environmental services is northern Minnesota. Northern Minnesota has a large number of tribal reservations and we feel that an intern through this program will help us understand the tribal perspective on things and to bring that aspect into our daily work in the environmental services we provide.

3. How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

Our team of scientists and engineers have extensive experience in all areas of environmental protection including air, water and waste. We strongly support this programs mission of providing a two-way street on education for both groups. We will gladly work to provide a valuable educational experience to an intern on how the local, state and federal regulatory programs function. I am also an adjunct instructor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth in the science and engineering school and thus I value the educational process and will approach this both from the consulting side of things and the academia side of things to value to the student.

4. List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

We have staff in our Duluth, Minnesota office that work on typical environmental regulatory programs in air, water, and waste and we can share that experience and knowledge with an intern. We also have a team in Duluth doing extensive environmental restoration projects in the Duluth/Superior Harbor, including restoration of the Spirit Lake area which we know is a culturally significant area to the Anishinaabe people. We could get an intern involved with the restoration efforts for the Spirit Lake project along with 4 other restoration projects we are working on in the harbor. In addition, we have industrial clients  where we assist them with a lot of environmental compliance efforts. Knowing that the Bands have often had conflict with some companies, we feel we can help bridge the gap and help funnel the two-way street of information and knowledge in that area. We would plan to get an intern involved in those projects as well.

5. Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

We do both office work and field work and we would plan to get an intern involved on both ends. We will work hard to make a summer of 2023 internship with Stantec a very valuable experience for all and we welcome the opportunity.
Brett A. Ballavance, P.E.
Senior Associate, Senior Environmental Engineer

Name: Jeffrey Harper
Organization: Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Division of Resource Management Environmental Department, Water Resources
Email:  jeff.harper@llojibwe.net
Phone:  218-252-2805
Address:  190 Sailstar Drive NW Cass Lake MN 56633

1 How do you help your community?

I am the Water Resources Manager for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, have been here full time since 1995. Utilizing EPA Clean Water Act 106 funding we sample surface waters – including lakes, rivers streams and wetlands. We partner with other tribes as well as federal, state and county agencies to measure current water quality and set water quality standards in an attempt to limit pollution and our negative effects on the environment.One of my responsibilities is running our Summer Youth Experience program in which we bring in youth 13-15 to spend two weeks with us doing everything we do to give them exposure to the field and hopefully bring them into the field as well as build a broader understanding in the community of what we do. I also bring on interns from Leech Lake Tribal College STEMs programs to work in the Water Resources Program.

2 How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

At a base level having an intern will at least increase our community’s level of understanding of what we do. The intern will gain understanding and could apply it in their education as well as in their employment if they choose to work in this field. We hope to someday have natives in higher positions within our own reservations as well as county, state and federal government that will help to protect our environment.

3 How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

We will show the day-to-day job as well as the planning and managerial skills needed to protect what we have by using available funding and current laws. The intern may also have the opportunity to work with other programs in the Environmental Department such as the Air and Brownfield Department, and other Division of Resource Management programs such as Fish & Wildlife, Land and Forestry.

4 List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

Basic water quality data collection at beach/swimming sites, sample collection and preparation for our projects and our partnerships, data and sample collection on oil pipeline water crossings, wetland delineation, NEPA, mapping locations of individual sanitary sewer systems…

The intern will also have the opportunity to be a good example and show leadership to our younger interns.

5 Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

Our normal work days are 8-4:30 Monday – Friday, truck time can be a couple hours per day, we eat lunch in the field together as a team. We will apply mapping and planning skills, minimal GIS usage on the day-to-day, will need to be able to take notes, be able to learn how to use each type of field and lab equipment. Some heavy lifting and carrying loads will be expected. Rowing a boat and paddling canoe will be part of the job.

Name: Kurt Kipfmueller
Organization: University of Minnesota Dendroecology Laborator; Department of Geography, Environment, & Society
Email: kurt@umn.edu
Phone: 651-399-1089
Address: 414 Social Sciences Building, 267-19^th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55455

1 How do you help your community?

Our lab group develops fire and climate histories from tree rings to better understand the ecological and cultural relationships between fire and the environment. Our work spans much of northern Minnesota with some specific projects reconstructing fire on Chippewa National Forest lands and Itasca State Park. Our work helps better understand how, when, and where fire was used as a tool to carefully manage resources in the past to better understand the present and future. Our research aims to provide actionable information to our partners to reconsider fire use and helps reconnect present-day fire practitioners with the past.

2 How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

Our lab group would like to engage more directly with an intern while doing field work in the area around Itasca State Park and the Leech Lake area. An intern would assist us directly (and learn) how we conduct data collection for fire history in the field and process this data to assign calendar dates. We would hope that an intern would be interested in learning these techniques while sharing stories and observations of the landscape. We envision this as a broad interaction and contribution.

3 How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

We will use a group mentoring model where graduate students and faculty members will interact with the intern in the field, spend time in the laboratory to teach an intern the processes, and facilitate the development of independent projects. We will also read and discuss articles and scientific papers related to our research to facilitate dialogue surrounding fire use in the Upper Great Lakes.

5 List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.* Assist with field data collection. Assume responsibility for developing fire history for at least one site.* Present results of fire history to interested stakeholders (CNF, Leech Lake Tribal College, LLBO, etc.)* Geolocate information from surveyor field notes developed in the 1800s and create GIS data layers.

5 Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

-Must be willing to work in the field during sometimes inclement weather

-Field work requires long periods of sometimes demanding physical activity (hiking off trail, working with crosscut saws, etc.)

-Some overnight camping might be required (although this is flexible as well)

-Proficiency/experience with GIS is desirable

-Transportation to field sites (Itasca State Park, Cass Lake Area) is preferable, but not required (we have some potential work-arounds).

Name: Tanya RedRoad
Organization: Toxic Taters Coalition
Email: ttatercoordinator@gmail.com
Phone: 701-261-2588
Address: (Physical)607 Main Ave Callaway, MN
(Mailing Address) 26253 485th St. Vergas, MN 56587

1. How do you help your community?

Boozhoo, My Name is Tanya RedRoad, I am the Toxic Taters Program Coordinator. Toxic Taters Coalition is a non-profit made up of rural farmers and White Earth tribal members who work towards eliminating pesticide use in the Northwest Central area. We work on education around pesticides, we hold water testing clinics, contribute to political efforts, and promote racial equity in farming. My job is to help identify problem areas that may have pesticide spraying or usage, which includes water testing. We currently have a Clean Water Campaign to help families who cannot afford reverse osmosis systems or other means to have safe drinking water. We are working on introducing Food Justice Timeline to help identify barriers that have been developed over time. Many of these changes have had negative impacts with food and farming for indigenous communities. This can be seen in other communities of color. We are currently working with Pesticide Action Network and Midwest Farmers of Color to stay connected with legislation efforts that would level the playing field for farmers of color with an emphasis on Indigenous farming. Other work alongside these efforts, to revitalize our education materials to better promote awareness on pesticides and pesticide spraying. These harmful chemicals can reap varies health conditions and many go unnoticed. We need to bring this information to the community and remind the State of MN.

2. How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

We hope to offer experience in the non-profit realm along with working on community environmental justice issues. We hope to show student(s) how to organize water testing clinics to better inform them on how to advocate for community wellness. We also hope they will gain a perspective on legislation advocacy efforts. Including organizing community relationships to better address issues around rural farming. There will be an opportunity for them to learn how to protect land and water resources for future generations.

3. How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

We can offer hands-on experience with water testing clinics to monitor clean water resources for farmers. This entails collecting water from community wells and/or community members to identify hot spots that may indicate pesticide exposure. We will offer hands on experience in creating community timelines to address farming changes and future needs. We can offer experience in operating and preparing materials for advocacy, education, and awareness on pesticide damage

4. List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

We have several duties to our non-profit that can show a wholistic approach to address issues that rural farming poses. There will be some office duties and in the field duties. All the areas we are approaching would directly give student(s) a real-world view of nonprofit work, education on pesticides and community work.

5. Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (Transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

Our fieldwork entails being outside and/or in small areas to do water testing clinics, while working with the public. Some heavy lifting may be involved, but for the most part, community organizing is the main portion of work. The student would have to have their own transportation but could possibly ride with staff if opportunity allows to different sectors of work. (For example, meeting at the office and riding with staff to water clinics). Be Covid prepared. We don’t require vaccine prove at this time, but it would be beneficial at some point. Otherwise, we do have supplies to help reduce spread of covid. Miigwech!

Name: Amy Burnette
Organization: Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Division of Resource Management, Tribal Historic Preservation
Address: 190 Sailstar Drive NW 113 2nd Street NE, MN Cass Lake
Email: amy.burnette@llojibwe.net  
Phone: (218) 335-8095

1. How do you help your community?    

The Tribal Historic Preservation Officer helps the Leech Lake Tribal Council to protect and preserve archaeological sites and burials inside of the Leech Lake Reservation boundaries, and work with the State Historic Preservation Officers throughout our complete territories in locations across several states. Tribal Historic Preservation Officer programing is Federally funded by the National Park Service.

2. How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?    

I am hoping to partner with a Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program participant. There are a few projects we could consider together that fits your interests: Leech Lake Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (LLTHPO) partners with the Chippewa National Forest Heritage Program for the Youth Archaeology Program which has activities with youth ranging from middle school to early secondary to learn about archaeological investigation. An intern would work with an archaeologist and assist youth learn about shovel testing, and measuring and opening an unit for study. LLTHPO also would like assistance with records for burials at cemeteries. There are several cemeteries throughout the reservation that could be considered to assist with documentation. LLTHPO is also open to discuss any other aspects of preservation a Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program participant may have interest in.

3. How will you contribute to the education of your intern?    

This internship would provide opportunities to learn about various preservation careers including; archaeology, protecting sites, burial documentation, the differences and similarities between archaeological and historic sites. Tribal and Federal preservation laws and cultural resource management.

4. List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.    

Learn with youth about basic archaeology, help youth dig a shovel test, shake dirt through screens to check for artifacts, packing and unpacking tools. Document information on burials in cemeteries; placement, condition, and gravestones or monuments, any other notable information.

5. Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)    

Archaeological activity will need shoveling and equipment used will have heavy lifting, physical exertion and coordination can be involved. The ability to listen and learn about equipment used for archaeology will help, it is not expected for an intern to have experience in archaeology. For the cemetery documentation, skills and needs include writing and filling in a form, measuring and mapping skills, and transportation and driving to the location to be recorded.

Name: Shirley Nordrum
Organization:  U of M Extension FRTEP
Email: nordr006@umn.edu
Phone:  (218) 368-1114
Address: 41280 295th Ave Laporte, MN 56461-4608

1. How do you help your community?

I am working with Red Lake Band member for c-create modules for a Tribal Natural Resource and Environment outreach and service program. Over the summer we will be working to populate models with summer seasonal based knowledge and activities and hosting activities to practice skills that support what we learn. I am also working with Kade Farris, Red Lake THPO and Amy Burrnett, Leech Lake THPO and Sean DunHam and Marci Gotchi Chippewa National Forest to re-establish the Red Lake/Leech Lake Trail and build a collection of revitalize knowledge around Ojibwe trail systems use.

2. How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

I am looking for a Red Lake intern only as the information we are working with is data sensitive to Red Lake only and in some cases maybe confidential. I would like to have a student with graphics arts or GIS skills but it is not critical. I think any student interested in cultural and language revitalization or Indigenous Inquire would be interested in the work that I am involved with.

3. How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

I have been working with and for Tribal Nation on matters of Natural Resource management, Environmental protection, and revitalizing knowledge and skills around traditional food and fiber practices for over 36 years. If a student is interested in any of these areas I think have much to offer as a mentor.

4. List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

research art/design projects Interviews with community attend meetings explore the land and waters with an eye toward seasonal availability

5. Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

We will be outside, dress appropriately you never know what type of opportunities might arise during any given day. They need to be able to travel to Red Lake or better yet live at Red Lake.

Name: Sean Dunham
Organization: US Forest Service, Chippewa National Forest
Email: sean.b.dunham@usda.gov
Phone: (218) 407-1110
Address: 200 Ash Ave NW Cass LAke, MN 56633

1. How do you help your community?

We work for the Chippewa National Forest as heritage resource managers. Heritage resources encompass a range of things including archaeological and historic sites; historic buildings; cultural landscapes; and places that have cultural meaning or significance relating to events or practices of the people who live, or who once lived, on the Forest. We also have an obligation to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe based on treaties and our overlapping land base with the Leech Lake Reservation. Our primary responsibility is to ensure Forest Service activities such as timber harvests or campground development do not impact or disturb historic or cultural sites that are within the Reservation and National Forest.

2. How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

Our hope is that an intern could contribute to our team providing their skills and perspective as we plan and carry out our tasks. We also hope that the intern is interested in developing and working on a project that appeals to their interest as well as contribute to our program on the Forest.

3. How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

We will share our knowledge and experience as we explore different aspects of our careers with the intern. We will also provide support for them to use the internship to achieve goals or acquire skills that are relevant to their academic and personal journeys,

4. List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

We are involved with a variety of projects and would like to involve an intern in those opportunities. We are planning to have the intern shadow us, as well as join us, as we carry out tasks such as archaeological field work, collections management, project planning, and our other regular tasks. We will be hosting a youth archaeology workshop in June and conducting a couple experiments about the efficacy of our archaeological site discovery and historic preservation methods that an intern would be welcome to participate in. We are working with partners at the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and Red Lake Nation to put together some materials about the Leech Lake/Red Lake Trail. This trail was an important overland trail connecting the Leech Lake and Red Lake communities. For an intern that has some GIS and/or multimedia skills, a great product would be to begin building a StoryMap for the project. A project like this could include GIS, historical research (archival, written, and oral), and some fieldwork (orienteering, ecology, and possibly archaeology). This could be a great Niizhoo-gwayakochigewin project in that it will involve two ways of doing the right thing, in the right way by involving settler colonist and Indigenous perspectives to exploring the past. The partners include Amy Burnette, Leech Lake THPO, Kade Ferris, Red Lake THPO, Shirly Nordrum, UM Extension, Marcie Gotchie, Chippewa National Forest, and Sean Dunham, Chippewa National Forest. Each of us will be able to provide guidance throughout the course of the project.

5. Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

Appropriate field clothing will be important for field work, and we’ll supply any equipment they may need. Transportation to Cass Lake would be useful. The projects themselves will entail certain skills or abilities. Field work can be rigorous and can lead to exposure to things such as poison ivy, insect bites/stings, or tripping hazards. Certain tasks, like working on the StoryMap, will benefit from experience with historical/library research, GIS, working with digital media, and common computer software. Many undergraduate students have these skills. You wouldn’t have to be an expert, but exposure and experience to these should be adequate.

Name: Colin Eagle

Organization: Bemidji State University

Email: colin.eagle@live.bemidjistate.edu

Phone : (218) 838-6824

Address: 1500 Birchmont Dr NE Bemidji, MN 56601

1.How do you help your community?
I am currently a Niizhoo fellow for the Center of Sustainability Studies, and I help the community by being a positive role model for young Native Americans. I participate in ceremony, do fire keeping, I am involved with my child’s sports activities. I am also investigating Microplastic in Fish.

2.How do you hope an intern will contribute through the Niizhoo-gwakochigewin program to helping your community?

I feel like its part of my responsibility to my people to educate and shepherd along the future scientists. I hope that they’ll take the next steps and attempt graduate school, so they too can be a teacher of the good way. I also hope they find hope and courage to ask questions about the place we reside in it, and respect the place we reside in.

3.How will you contribute to the education of your intern?

I will expose the intern to western science ways of doing science but also open there mind to the indigenous perspective also. They will learn the steps to completing a complex research project through background research, implementing laboratory methods, and using software for data analysis.

4.List some responsibilities that an intern might do/projects they might work on.

The intern will help create a clean laboratory environment to analyze samples. This involves dusting, Swiffer mopping, dish cleaning, wiping down surfaces prior to and after digestion. The intern will assist the graduate student in the chemical digestion of multiple fish organs. The intern will help with the microscopic and FTIR spectrometer analysis of samples for particle verification. The intern will also assist with data collection and data management, this involves learning how to use R software for complex statistics.

5.Is there anything an intern should know before working with you? (transportation needs, heavy lifting, allergies, specific technical background (ex. GIS), etc.)

You will need you’re own transportation, a lot of sitting, independent.