We will help encourage reverence and respect at National Parks that are documented sacred sites. Our first project will be at Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming USA. We hope to use this model for other parks. Scouting has so many ties to Native American heritage specifically because of one of the founders of Boy Scouts: Charles Eastman (Santee Dakota). Eagle Scout. Order of the Arrow. Conservation. Outdoor skills. Native American themes are intertwined in scouting. The Scout Law says: "A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent." PROBLEM WE AIM TO FIX: Many times when people come to parks, they treat it simply as a tourist. They come excited. They take pictures. They buy souvenirs. They experience the park and leave. Sometimes they leave trash. Sometimes they are so loud that they disrupt nature. Sometimes they walk off the trail and trample plants or make new paths that lead to erosion. But if the park is also a sacred site, our presence means that we are disrupting something very precious just because we are there at all. I am not saying that people should go, but just change HOW they go. Scouts can help to change the way that parks are treated and modeling respect for the environment. They also can model respect when the park is a sacred site. Respect goes beyond simply not littering and staying on the trail. To be courteous means more. To be reverent means more. But I think many scouts or park guests simply don't know that they are disruptive, destructive or rude. I think if we could model what is appropriate and courteous and reverent then others would follow. MY GOALS: 1) To create a fun educational worksheet/packet for kids that explains why the park is special to Native Americans. 2) To create an app for park guests to learn about how to be good guests 3) To train and enlist scouts/troops from neighboring states to volunteer to serve as park hosts at Devils Tower National Monument to explain how to bettter respect the park which is sacred to 20 tribes. I can't fix everything, but I can help.