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Bringing Indigenous and Earth systems sciences together in collaborative partnerships creates the potential for new, holistic, and justice-centered knowledge and innovation to emerge. Indigenous knowledge systems are based on holistic, place- and experience-based observations, long-term monitoring, testing, hypothesizing, and evaluation developed over millennia. Because they focus on relationships between atmosphere, hydrosphere, and ecosystems that constitute the web of life, Indigenous knowledge systems are keenly attuned to local changes in those relationships. Atmospheric sciences can complement Indigenous knowledge systems by identifying the underlying physical and larger-scale causes of change and enabling prediction of future changes. This Town Hall celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. We will begin with a short, lively panel discussion about a framework for co-creating knowledge through collaboration between Indigenous and Earth Sciences. The framework has emerged through the previous decade of Rising Voices. After the panel discussion we will have opportunities for audience engagement when we welcome people to join us for an informal opportunity to share and connect about doing this work. The event will have corporate and AMS sponsorship.