The Center for Native American Youth at The Aspen Institute (CNAY) has partnered with Brown University Pre-College Programs to award full-tuition, residential scholarships for two Native students to attend a Brown University Pre-College program during summer 2018. The CNAY-Brown Summer Scholarship covers tuition, room and board, application fees, and program fees. Travel support is also available for the two […]
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Meet the five Lakota teens traveling to Washington, DC as part of the Cheyenne River Youth Project’s Growing Into Wowachinyepi youth leadership program. Claudia Iron Hawk is 18 years old and a student at Cheyenne Eagle Butte High School. Her initiative focuses on Lakota language and culture revitalization. To strengthen her ties to her culture and language, Claudia […]
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When Champion for Change Mariah Gladstone was a young girl, she had a dream about cookies and her mom helped bring them to real life. She still dreams about food and turns them into recipes, only now, she produces her own cooking show called Indigikitchen. In this episode of Toasted Sister, a podcast about Native American foods, Mariah talks […]
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Major grant from Walmart Foundation will anchor funding for cross-cultural training expeditions in communities across the country throughout 2018 and 2019. Washington, D.C. – Fresh Tracks, a leadership program that brings together emerging youth leaders from urban and Indigenous communities, is launching a milestone expansion funded in part by a one-year, $500,000 grant from the Walmart […]
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