This week’s column is written by former CAIRNS staffer Tyler Young, a graduate student in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. In it, he draws a direct STEM connection from the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty to Tribal Colleges and Universities and then to tribal sovereignty. Click here to read, “Sovereignty, STEM, and the Future," the CAIRNS Etanhan Wotanin column that is also published in the Lakota Times.