The Indigenous Great Lakes Network (IGLN) acts as a resource and support service for participating Indigenous communities, Nations, Tribes and organizations, facilitating collaboration and knowledge-sharing with the aim of advancing Indigenous environmental research and monitoring needs in the Great Lakes region. 

Network Intentions:

1. Fostering Connection and Collaboration: To act as a central hub that fosters connection between Indigenous communities, Nations, Tribes and organizations around the Laurentian Great Lakes.

2. Funding Support and Resource Accessibility: To provide network participants with the resources they have identified as being necessary to address obstacles faced when it comes to accessing resources needed to advance and pursue their environmental research and monitoring priorities.

3. Inclusivity and Transparency in Network Structure: To ensure that the network’s decision-making processes (e.g., priorities, vision, mandate, funding) are transparent, fair, and accountable, and to work for and support individual participants (communities, Nations, Tribes, and organizations) as well as the collective.

4. Intergenerational Knowledge Sharing and Sustainable, Indigenous-led and Indigenous-focused Initiatives: To create, promote, and support opportunities for youth to actively engage in environmental research and monitoring initiatives.

5. Training, Capacity-Building, and Community-focused Sustainability: To assist in building or connecting participating Indigenous communities, Nations and Tribal Organizations with the right people, skills and expertise to support environmental research or monitoring.

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