Natalie Michelle grew up on Indian Island and is a member of the Panawapskwei (Penobscot) Nation. Her parents are the late Dr. Theodore N. Mitchell from Panawapskwei, Old Town Maine and Eleanor M. Dana-Mitchell from Peskotomuhkati (Passamaquoddy), Perry, Maine. Her interest and concentration have been sustainable practices in natural resources utilizing traditional indigenous knowledge of the environment and bringing Native Women’s voice to the forefront on environmental issues and particularly restoring Native Women’s Knowledge Systems about the environment. She is a Research Associate at Orono in collaboration with traditional knowledge carriers and faculty in STEM for the development of Native American Science Curriculum. She is also a visiting Assistant Professor at Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Dr. Michelle holds an Interdisciplinary PhD in Ethno-botany and Adaptive Practices in Climate Change through the Native American Studies program at the University of Maine at Orono. As a descendent of traditional healers of the Peskotomuhkati and hereditary Chiefs of the Penobscot people, her interests are in areas of Climate Change Impacts on cultural identity, traditional life ways, medicinal plants, traditional governance systems, Native American Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Research Methodology, traditional ecological knowledge, and restoring Indigenous Language as an Adaptive Strategy for restoring traditional knowledge systems.