You’re Invited! 2020 State of Native Youth Report Release Event

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, the Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) at the Aspen Institute is pleased to announce the 2020 State of Native Youth Report.  The theme of this year’s report is Native Youth are Medicine – highlighting the strength and resilience of Native youth.   To commemorate the release, CNAY will be hosting a virtual Zoom release event on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 from 6:00-7:30 pm EST. This panel-style release event will feature the Native […]

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“Native youth have the power to make change-if there is a change you want to see, make it happen. We are the future.”

Written by: Kiara Tantaquidgeon, Mohegan Tribe Coming to Quinnipiac, a predominantly white University, as a Native student was challenging. What was even more challenging and frustrating is that Quinnipiac University is a settler-colonist institution that uses a Native name and is on native land with little recognition, acknowledgement, or celebration of the Quinnipiac people.  As […]

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CNAY & NCAI Celebrate the 2020 Creative Native Winners

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC: November 13, 2020—The Aspen Institute’s Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) is proud to announce the winners of the third annual Creative Native Call for Art in partnership with the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). Creative Native is a call for art launched in 2018 to support Native American artists ages 5-24. […]

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2020 Creative Native Winners Announced

In 2018, the Center for Native American Youth launched its first ever Creative Native Call for Art, an art contest to support Indigenous artists ages 5-24 years old by providing them an opportunity to receive national recognition, and a $250 prize. For the second consecutive year, CNAY partnered with the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) in the Creative Native Call […]

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