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.

Jalen C.

8, Muscogee Creek and Hunkpapa Lakota

On my painting I put three pictures one of me and my mom when I was a baby, one when I graduated Headstart, and one of me now at the protest for every child matters. A title of the painting “My Life”. Around the pictures I put the background lots of colors so it could be beautiful. I also threw a Portrait of me running at the prayer one with the Eagle staff. My animals, my family, sports, and my animals all of these mean the most to me and make me who I am.

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“A lot of the time, Urban Indians are thought of as absent of culture because we live in concrete jungles surrounded by settler and pop culture. Many believe we don’t even have land to practice our traditional harvesting and ceremonies, but the truth is what little access to land we have, we utilize it to persevere and enhance our tribal and inter-tribal cultures.”

-Anthony Tamez,

Wuskwi Sipihk First Nations Cree and Sicangu Lakota , 2018 Champion for Change