Media Mentions

Article / Interview, The Imprint

Two Former Foster Youth Are Among the Center for Native American Youth’s Annual Fellows

Two former foster youth, Christina (Mool-Mool) Kaltsukis of the Yakama Nation and Sunny (Puc) Wahquahboshkuk, of the Prairie Band Potawatomi and Muscogee Creek Nations, have received yearlong fellowships from the Center for Native American Youth to continue their advocacy work on behalf of tribal communities. The Imprint spoke with both recipients about their child welfare histories and what they hope to achieve over the course of the fellowship year.

Brave Heart Fellowship, Building Communities of Hope, Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Mvskoke Creek, Prairie Band Potawatomi, Yakama Nation

Article / Press Release, Native News Online

Rising Leaders: CNAY Unveils 2026 Fellows Cohort

CNAY has announced the 2026 Fellows. The co-hort of two dozen aspiring Native leaders, ages 18-24, will convene on Cahuilla land in Palm Springs, Calif., later this month.

The Fellows’ shared curriculum focuses on sovereignty and self-determination. Designed for Native youth who aspire to serve their Tribal Nations as future leaders, decision-makers, and Nation builders, sessions will focus on building a practical understanding of sovereignty not just as a concept, but as it operates in real life – legally, financially, and institutionally.

Brave Heart Fellowship, California Native Youth Collective, Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows

Op-ed, National Women’s Law Center

DEI Isn’t a Handout. For Some Students, It’s a Lifeline.

Coauthored by 2024 Remembering Our Sisters Fellow Summer Wildbill and Black student activist Mel de Miami, this NWLC piece highlights the importance of DEI initiatives in creating equitable educational opportunities and culturally-informed support for students of color.

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Press Release, National Organization for Women

NOW Honors the National Day of Awareness for our Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR)

From the Center for Native American Youth and Sage Chief (Oglala Lakota and Diné), a 19-year-old student at Oglala Lakota College, on Fighting Against an Epidemic of Injustice on the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons. 

“We are given so many excuses as to why these cases are not handled correctly,” she writes, “it’s time somebody starts giving us solutions.”  

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Diné, Oglala Lakota

Op-ed, The Aspen Institute

Fighting Against an Epidemic of Injustice on the National Day of Awareness for MMIP

Sage Chief (she/her) is Oglala Lakota and Diné. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she now lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and has experienced first-hand the devastation of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) epidemic. At just 19 years old, Sage is a student at Oglala Lakota College, an ambassador for the Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute and a passionate advocate for the MMIP movement.

MMIW, Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Diné, Oglala Lakota

Interview / Radio, KPFT 90.1 Houston, Texas

People of Earth

2025 Remembering Our Sisters Fellow Carrie Johnson was interviewed live on air about her work as an MMIWG2S+ advocate, her fellowship journey and CNAY.

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Chickasaw, Pawnee

News Roundup, National Native News

CNAY has announced its newest cohort of the Remembering Our Sisters Fellowship

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows

Press Release, Native Oklahoma Magazine

Young Indigenous Women & Femme Leaders Speak Out Against Epidemic of Injustice

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows

Article / Interview, College Park Here & Now, Maryland

UMD student creates map of missing, murdered Native Americans

University of Maryland (UMD) student Linaly Miyamoto created an interactive map, which pinpoints the locations where 500 or so indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered in the United States.

“I think seeing my grandma struggling with her indigenous identity … really was my reason for joining the fellowship,” Miyamoto said. “When you complain about something, but do nothing about it, then I don’t see a reason why you should not be doing anything.”

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Coast Salish Cowichan

Article / Interview, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin

Menominee woman visits White House to discuss epidemic of violence against her people

[McKaylin] Peters worked with like-minded young women from around the country via Zoom and then met with them in person at the end of the program in California. She also created a 10-minute mini-documentary highlighting the epidemic of violence from a local level on the Menominee Reservation and on a national level.

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Menominee Indian Tribe