Tele-Native Youth: Dancing is Medicine

By: Ruben Littlehead, Northern Cheyenne This webinar included special guests from across the globe, our relatives from New Zealand. I had the honor and privilege to moderate this awesome webinar and ask these five dancers: Cassidy Makiha, Chas Samoa, Fa’asu Afoa-Purcell, Xavier Breed, and ‘Isope ‘Akau’ola what their personal views and feelings toward the art […]

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Tele-Native Youth: Indigenizing Higher Education

By: Ruben Littlehead, Northern Cheyenne This webinar included three dynamic Native scholars, Charitie Ropoti (Yup’ik & Sāmoan), Owen Oliver (Quinault (Chinook) & Isleta Pueblo), and Dr. Twyla Baker (Mandan, Hidatsa, & Arikara), all spoke very eloquently and professional about higher education and what it means to them and how they are Indigenizing these systems for […]

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Tele-Native Youth: Art is Medicine

By: Ruben Littlehead, Northern Cheyenne This webinar included three talented artisans, Del Curfman, Kami Jo Whiteclay, and Aydrian Day, who shared their personal story and inner passions about their artwork. All three artists also spoke about their tribal background and how that played an integral piece of their medium.  Two of the panelists belong to the […]

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“One day I will raise my hands to my community for helping me understand what true self-love is.”

By: Cheyenne “I used to believe that self-love only was in fairytales i used to believe that self-love with something nonexistent until I found my people. I found my people I found my community and I found myself. I realized that not only did my community help me in my journey to understanding and finding […]

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