August 12 through 15, 2024

TRIBAL LANDS AND ENVIRONMENT FORUM

The Graduate Hotel

Eugene, Oregon & Online

Your community to connect with colleagues across the country

as we address Tribal waste and response issues. 

This is the fourteenth annual forum for environmental professionals from Tribes, US EPA, State/Local/Federal agencies, community organizations, and other interested parties to meet, share knowledge and learn from one another how to improve management, protection and restoration of Tribal lands for us and all our relations.

This year we'll meet in-person in Eugene, OR and online everywhere.

This year's host hotel and conference will be the Graduate Eugene.  

For more information on the host hotel and to make reservations, please visit our hotel tab or click here

Local baseball night: Join us Tuesday night at 6:30pm to watch one of TLEF's longtime attendees throw out the first pitch as the Eugene Emeralds take on the Hillsboro Hops at PK Park. We have a block of discounted tickets ($10) for TLEF attendees if you purchase through this link. These tickets will allow all TLEF attendees to sit together so grab some friends or come alone and meet new friends! The park is also offering a $10 Burger & Brew deal.

City of Eugene: Land Acknowledgement

Since time immemorial, the Kalapuya people have been the Indigenous stewards to our region building dynamic communities, maintaining balance with wildlife, and enacting sustainable land practices. A land acknowledgement is a way of resisting the erasure of Indigenous histories and to honor Native communities by inviting truth and reconciliation. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their Indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. As we consider the impacts of colonization, we also acknowledge the strength and resiliency of displaced Indigenous people. The City of Eugene is built within the traditional homelands known as Kalapuya Ilihi. Kalapuya descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, they continue to make contributions in our communities here and across the lands. We express our respect for the inherent political sovereignty of all federally recognized Tribal Nations and Indigenous people who live in the State of Oregon and across the nation.

The Tribal Lands and Environment Forum (TLEF) is a joint effort between the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP), the Tribal Waste and Response Steering Committee (TWAR SC), and US EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM).

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