In a recent Forest Stewards Guild feature, Les Benedict is recognized for a career spanning more than three decades as Assistant Director of the Environment Division for the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe. A longtime leader in black ash conservation, Benedict’s work has connected Tribal environmental stewardship, seed preservation, and hands-on teaching across a broad network of In...

Growing demand for internet services and the data centers that enable them, driven largely by expanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, presents a variety of challenges and opportunities for Tribal Nations. Depending on each Nation’s economic, social, and environmental contexts and priorities, expanding data centers may threaten Indigenous relatives and lifeways, p...

USET’s Office of Environment Resource Management (OERM) kicked off 2026 with a successful Resilience Writing Retreat hosted by the Community Resilience Program and the Pamunkey Indian Tribe. Held January 13-15, the retreat brought participants from eight USET member Tribal Nations together for focused writing sessions alongside USET staff and contracted subject matter experts...

The Udall Undergraduate Scholarship Program identifies future leaders in environmental, Tribal public policy, and health care fields. It is highly competitive, with students participating in their schools’ internal competitions before receiving conside...

The 2025 Native American College Fair website takes the place of an in-person event for the 2025-26 school year. It will be available throughout the 2025-26 school year, and updated as new information is received. Each year we adapt our event to meet the needs of Native Americ...