The Center for Native American Youth partners with Columbia University to offer a full-tuition, residential scholarship for one Native student to attend Columbia’s Summer Immersion Program for High School Students. CNAY is pleased to recognize Christian Smith as our 2018 CNAY-Columbia Summer Scholar! Christian is 18 years old, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and a junior […]
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On May 3-5, CNAY visited Champion for Change Anthony Tamez in Chicago for the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative Urban Native Education Conference. Along with the conference, CNAY enjoyed a tour of Anthony’s home community. Anthony and his family first welcomed CNAY to Chicago with a tour of the Chicago American Indian Center. The AIC is a gathering place for […]
CONTINUE READINGTwenty-four Filipino youth from Mindanao, the southern region of the Philippines, visited CNAY for our first youth roundtable meeting of Summer 2018. The youth were participants from the U.S. State Department’s Philippine Youth Leadership Program (PYLP). In an informal discussion, the visiting young leaders learned more about Indigenous peoples in the U.S., CNAY, and Generation Indigenous. The PYLP youth […]
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Sunday, April 22, 2018 New Orleans, LA – Following the success of the first year of the Native American Success Academy and Gen-I Career Success Fellowship, the Center for Native American Youth and the Native American Finance Officers Association (NAFOA) have partnered again for 2018 with an improved NACSA curriculum and a second cohort of fellows. Over 110 Native […]
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