The date: Dec. 5, 2006. The place: Cocopah Nation Indian Reservation in Yuma, Ariz. One-hundred fifty-five Native Americans and one Chasidic Jew converged for the National Wildlife Foundation’s Tribal Land Climate Change Conference. Rabbi Shmuel Simenowitz, director of Project Ya’aleh V’Yavo, a Jewish environmental non-profit, had been asked to participate in this conference by a Native American who had once heard him speak.