February 05, 2008

Greetings,

Native Waters has been involved in an EETAP (Environmental Education and Training Partnership) program funded by the U.S. E.P.A. Office of Environmental Education. The purpose of this project is to work with Native communities to measure the effectiveness of the Project WET educator workshop within a tribal setting. To this end, Native Waters is still looking for communities to hold Project WET workshops. Please contact me if you’re interested.

The Traveling Exhibit is still available. The Huhugam Heritage Center in Chandler Arizona has hosted the exhibit for 6 months. Then it went to the Pequot Museum and is now in Delaware. This spring it will be hosted in Minnesota. Although the exhibit is about the Missouri River Basin, venues outside the Missouri River Basin find the format of the exhibit a good teaching tool to use as a base to teach their own cultural perspectives about water. Last fall, Nestlé Waters North America donated a groundwater flow model to be included as a feature for one of the exhibits. I hope you enjoy this addition as a teaching tool. Please visit the Traveling Exhibit page for more information.

A few years ago, Native Waters partnered with the Yellowstone Ecological Research Center, located in Bozeman, Montana, to bring Native American students to Yellowstone National Park to learn GPS and GIS techniques using NASA tools. The program is generating a great response, and, as a result, students can return home with techniques that will, upon implementation, benefit their tribes. “Winds of Change,” recently published an article about this program and some of the intern’s projects. This program will end in July.

Thank you for visiting the Native Waters web site. I hope you enjoyed the information posted here. If you have any suggestions about the site, please let me know, and I will look into making changes. If you desire additional information on the Native Waters program, please contact me. I am happy to send more information to you about either Project WET or Native Waters.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Scott Frazier, Executive Director, Native Waters
406-585-4149
Scott.Frazier@projectwet.org