The "Climate Strong-Building Tribal Youth Leadership for Climate Resiliency" project aims to increase the knowledge and readiness of middle to high school students to deal with the impacts of extreme weather and environmental hazards that face the Ojibwe Ceded Territories (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan). Working with University of Wisconsin Extension, this project will also build capacity for increased climate change community resiliency curriculum in the classroom. Climate resiliency community outreach events will work with NOAA partners and integrate NOAA research with place-based cultural perspectives to Ojibwe tribes in the Ceded Territories.

Climate change impacts all our lives, but for indigenous peoples, it threatens culturally significant traditions that rely on sustainable fish, plant, and wildlife resources. These resources are critical for subsistence, spiritual and cultural needs, and treaty rights. Culturally relevant, place-based education is an important tool to involve community, and underrepresented students, in developing critical thinking skills to assess the issue of community resiliency to extreme weather events and engaging in action to help resolve it.