The document discusses an environmental education and awareness summit hosted by the Kainai people with the theme of "Taking Care of the Land". The goal is to initiate relationships and ideas that foster sustainable management of natural resources through dialogue between community members, elders, academics, and Chief and Council. A definition of ecosystem is provided as a complex community of organisms and their environment functioning as an ecological unit. The traditional territory of the Blackfoot people is described as including lands in what are now Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana, and Wyoming, bounded by the Rocky Mountains, North Saskatchewan River, Great Sand and Cypress Hills, and Yellowstone River. Several environmental studies and projects undertaken from 1994-2006 are listed, focused on wolf populations, bull trout