The poster will discuss the methods and results of my anthropology master's thesis that began in 2024. I joined my co-supervisors’, Dr. Janelle Baker, multi-disciplinary community-based project aimed at measuring selenium and nickel in traditional foods and medicine of Stoney Nakoda Nations in the Alberta province of Canada. This project responds to the provincial government’s decision to open coal exploration in the Eastern Slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains despite receiving opposition from Albertans. Coal mine tailings mobilize high quantities of selenium and nickel through water flow, and its bioaccumulation in plants, fish and wildlife can be harmful to Indigenous communities who hunt and gather. Stoney Nakoda community members called for this project after noticing poor environmental health, and female Elders were interviewed in 2023 to open the discussion on traditional food and medicine. Drawing from their knowledge, I conducted ethnographic participant observation from July to September 2025 while harvesting berries and medicine with Iyethka community members from Bighorn Reserve. While in the bush, Elders and knowledge holders spoke about the sacredness of language and traditional parenting practices, their connections with the spirits, and the medicines and ceremonies necessary for healing. They also shared the stress they and Other Beings face with inadequate consultation, increased tourism, and extractive industries that fail to follow correct protocol. I additionally witnessed Iyethka people’s commitment to Two-Way Science collaboration and ceremony to address overharvesting, sick animals, and climate change. The poster will center their stories, work, and concerns within coal mining politics to argue how their role as caretakers depends on their ability to engage with healthy land and spirits. The experience of Iyethka people in Alberta, Canada, will exemplify to conference attendees the importance of incorporating Indigenous protocols of stewardship throughout government and industry projects to protects both environmental and social wellbeing.