Ciara Oakley-Robbins, a Mashpee Wampanoag tribal citizen, is a carpenter by day and an Indigenous environmental activist by night. Drawing on her backgrounds in business management, construction and cabinet making and sharp entrepreneurial skills, Ciara, who grew up in the coastal area of Cape Cod and learned about the land and all its creatures from local elders, has become a youth advisor for the Mashpee Wampanoag Native Environmental Ambassadors, sharing traditional ecological knowledge with young people to help save her people’s ancestral lands.