supports academic success and cultivates a culturally responsive and sociallyconscious engineering mindset.The approach to this work in progress involves integrating Indigenous knowledge systems andpromoting cultural sensitivity while addressing societal-scale issues affecting indigenouspopulations and lands. Students engage in real-world problem-identification and problem-solutiondesign, using real-world data to facilitate learning and a growth mindset. Model-eliciting activities(MEAs) related to water issues are developed and implemented in an ENGR+ course. The MEAsaddress cultural mindset development, where students learn to identify problems and designsolutions for sociotechnical issues affecting indigenous populations and lands. Specifically