Below is the resolution for the First Stewards Symposium that I attended earlier this year. It was a historic gathering and I am pleased to announce that there will be another First Steward's conference in Summer of 2013. **************** RESOLUTION of the First Stewards Coastal Peoples Address Climate Change Symposium National Museum of the American Indian Washington, DC, on July 20, 2012 Whereas, we, the indigenous peoples, were and are the First Stewards of the lands and waters of North America, Alaska and the Pacific Islands, having lived in these areas millennia before the establishment of the United States; Whereas, about 300 First Stewards and others convened July 17 to 20, 2012, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Indian, Washington, DC, at the First Stewards: Coastal Peoples Address Climate Change Symposium; Whereas, the Symposium reemphasized the First Stewards’ awareness of the interconnectedness of the clouds, forest, valleys, land, streams, fis