We are the Center for Native American Youth

Our Vision is for all Native American youth to lead full and healthy lives, to have equal access to opportunity, and to draw strength from their culture and inspire one another.

EVYNN R.

EVYNN R., 17
HALIWA-SAPONI

About the Art: When I think about medicine the first thought that comes to my mine is the medicine dance, the jingle dress. Youth can find their medicine in their dances, ways of life, and even in themselves. When youth jingle dress dancers step into the circle it becomes medicine creating medicine. This is what causes healing for not only the youth but 7 generations behind us and in front of us.

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"I have been told that my dream of helping other Native youth is ridiculous and that I should give up. I realized that negative comments won’t hold me back. I will make my dream a reality."

-Elizabeth Burns,

Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Earlier years Champion for Change