The CAIRNS director was invited to give a zoom presentation as part of the Mayo Clinic’s "Indigenous Health Topics” webinar, so he put together a talk titled, “Advancing Sovereignty Through Arts and Education.” Whereas healthcare is typically oriented towards individuals, this talk was to promote the development of a healthy tribal nation through focusing on intentional arts and education. That intentionality is to embody two philosophies of tribal sovereignty: one political and the other spiritual. Both philosophies have a unique source of sovereignty and land base within which that sovereignty is exercised. For the political one, the source of sovereignty is treaties and treaty substitutes and the landbase is the lands that the federal government holds in trust for the tribe, which usually is the reservation that the tribe governs. For the spiritual philosophy, the source of sovereignty is the original instructions the people recieved from the spirits and the landbase is the peoples’ traditional homeland. Artworks that embody these philosophies will 1) reinforce connections between a tribe’s pre-reservation world and the contemporary world of today, 2) have relevant applications within tribal lands, 3) recognize tribal sovereignty, and 4) respect traditional spiritual beliefs. The presentation gave examples of how CAIRNS organizes and develops educational art exhibitions that embody the two philosophies. The presentation is available on YouTube.