Our goal is to create sustainable and resilient natural systems in which people engage with the Earth with reciprocity. Indigenous peoples have stewarded natural resources for millennia through their knowledge and traditional practices. The TEK Lab explores, facilitates, and honors the synergies between TEK, Western science, and other ways of knowing. By creating partnerships with Tribal Nations that honor sovereignty rights and nation-to-nation relationships, we are helping decolonize and re-Indigenize the practice of science and advance holistic, systems-based thinking. By braiding together multiple ways of knowing, we help empower Tribal Nations to make meaning, and create opportunities for Tribal youth in higher education to find solutions to some of humanity’s most pressing conservation challenges. The TEK Lab’s work takes place in the Western US and beyond, with a special focus on the Pacific Northwest. Our TEK-informed systems-thinking work includes forest management, fire ecology, ethnobotany, soil ecology, wildlife ecology, restoration ecology, ecocultural restoration, first foods, alternative forest products, wood products, ethics, and best practices for partnering with Tribal Nations. In our projects we provide jobs for Tribal youth, while engaging as fully and respectfully as possible with Tribal elders, Tribal leaders, and members of Tribal Nations. In our work, we aspire to build allyships across cultures worldwide.