January 2018

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Open to American Indian and Alaska Native youth 15 to 24 years old.

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Deadline for entries is August 27th.

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Current Submissions

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The document I'm submitting is about my two goals that I would like to accomplish in this upcoming school year.

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Went on a Legacy camp and took a trip to the Jamestown settlement

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This summer has been pretty busy with work and getting money to pay for college. One goal I have in mind is to grow stronger in my faith in God by reading and understanding the bible more and hangout with people who want to grow in faith.
Another goal is to raise my GPA up so that I can continue pursuing my degree. This past semester I had slipped and now I am paying for it, literally and figuratively, but I am not quitting and I will keep moving forward. This past summer's funds are going right back into school...
...I'm doing this to make everyone who looks up to me proud and encourage them to keep moving forward. I got to keep working hard, keep praying, keep praising, and keep growing. God bless you all.

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my submission is about the two goals i have for this year and a little about myself.

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My submission is a document explaining my goals for higher education this year and also I wanted the opportunity to be able to share my goals with someone else who might benefit from them. Higher education isn't easy and it's okay to take a break or fail every now and then and I just want to let other know to never give up. I am proof that higher education is possible and that anyone can do it.

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My two goals to accomplish this year. My first goal is to learn the in’s and out’s of animal science for the future when I become a veterinarian. The second goal is to be more active in my tribal program and learn about my great ancestors. This is the year I start to plan my way as I plan to go to vet school and I start to increase more information about my amazing tribe.

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I wanna go to school to train horses. And to learn about them. But for now I wanna do better in school. Get passing grades so I can go to college for what I want. Thank you for hearing me

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I live in the urban settings of Lincoln, NE. I’m an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and I’ll be entering into my Sophomore year of High School. My picture was taken at Black Elk Peak in South Dakota. Every year we go to the Sacred Black Hills for our family vacation. We have limited access to our cell phones, no running water and no electricity during this week. I really enjoy it and always look forward to this each year and to be honest, I wouldn’t change it for the world!!!! Wopila my relatives! - Jaydon Iron Shell

Back to School

This year I want to graduate and then strive toward my goal to be a high school teacher bat while preserving my culture.

Back to School

My submission is about what I want to do in my life

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Some goals for me this school year is to make the best yearbook I can and to graduate!!

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I chose my first goal because I recognize that I need some major improvements in my time management and I chose my second goal because my university has a lot of really cool and interesting clubs to choose from so it’s going to be hard to pick just a few!

Back to School

One goal I would like to accomplish is to take more detailed notes. Another would be interact with my classmates more!

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This fall I will be attending the Institute of American Indian Arts. I am excited to be in an artistic environment surrounded by various indigenous cultures, and I am ready for all the changes and growth I will experience. I want to share Chickasaw culture with others through my artwork, and I want to learn about other Native American cultures. Chokma'shki!

Back to School

As a recent high school graduate I look forward to the challenges of preparing myself to attend my first year of college. I will be living on campus and it will be my first time away from home and my family. The two most important goals I hope to achieve is becoming self sufficient and organized in my first year of college as a freshman. I will have a rigorous academic schedule in my pursuit of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and IT Technology. Secondly I would like to work on campus while interacting and familiarizing myself with the structure and social climate of a large university. I am looking forward to reaching my goals!

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I am pictured second from the right. Some background on me— I have a passion for helping young Native students near my university and hometown to pursue higher education or some type of workforce. I have been meeting these young warriors for the past 3 years and I plan to keep visiting them. My goals are to keep a consistent relationship with all my students in order to achieve the best outcome possible. I share my personal experiences from prepping for college to being a current college student, in addition to relaying advice I have obtained from mentors I have connected with throughout my adolescence.

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My goals that I want to accomplish is making more friends. I also want to go to school and make sure that the new kids in the school feel welcome. I want to have good grades and graduate this coming school year #2020grad

Back to School

Something I want to accomplish by this month is staying sober and getting back into school and finishing my AA..

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Throughout my years of college tours I've always had so many native advisers saying they need more native doctors! And I always agreed with helping native youth see the opportunities they have in college. Therefore we need more Native youth councils with benefits in them to motivate the native youth to get good grades.

I would like to also give credit to two youth councils that have changed my road of trials in life and motivated me to go towards my careers. Also with my current position within these youth councils:
Tribal Images Youth Council (president)
Tucson Native Youth Council (Male Co-president)

Making a difference for the future native leaders of tomorrow!

Back to School

I completed my first goal: register for classes. Thanks to my New Student Orientation Leaders! I am registered for 16 credit hours. My second goal is to “get into the groove”, college is a big change; the work ethic is different from high school; responsibilities become solely up to the student. But I know, I can, and I will get into the groove and slay my first year as a Freshman Native Scholar.

Back to School

Looking at my acceptance letter on laptop, I want to learn to transition and adjust to college life. Another goal is to keep my drive and determination in college work.

Back to School

My goals this academic year is to maintain above a 3.5 gpa, and make the deans list for my last year of college.

Also to stay focused on continuing my learning of the language, teachings and traditional arts.

Back to School

I spent my entire summer in the hospital because of a sports injury to my right foot that got infected. My whole life all I have known and loved was sports. This year I will be a senior but my future in sports doesn't look too bright which is heartbreaking to me. I always try my best to be positive, so my goal for this year is to become more involved with other school activities or clubs that I missed out on because of sports. Also to focus on myself and have hope.

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#Represent

Past week I attended Native Youth in Food and Agriculture Summit held for the past 6 years in Fayetteville, AR at the University of Arkansas. Accompanying around 38 other youth from around the nation pursuing food sovereignty, nutrition and health, law and policy, and Conservation of our lands. this opportunity has been the most shaping experience I have ever been apart of. I thought I came in with a understanding of what I wanted to heal in my community and I realized through this summit the possibilities and steps to get there to make ambitions reality. This has brought folks into my life that I will be networking and communicating with for what might be my entire career. Native Country is shaping youth like no other generation before me and the relatives I've made at this event get to be apart of it!

Native Pride Summer

During the summer photo contest, we asked you to share how you connect with culture and show your Native pride. Check out all of the entries and #represent!

The Tachi Yokut youth is here in Malibu California at the Wishtoyo Chumash Village learning how to respect the Ocean and the earth, were sleeping in Huts. PS I'm the one in khaki shorts, long sleeve and the long black socks :)

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I live on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. This picture was taken at Horseshoe Lake with my sisters.
I love nature - the coolness of the breeze, the refreshing spring waters, and the beautiful scenery always puts my heart and mind at ease. I stay healthy and strong with all the outdoor activities such as hiking, biking, fishing, camping and what a great place to do all these activities than in my backyard on my beautiful reservation!

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I am Alutiiq (Alaskan Native). After contact from Russia and then Europe, our population and culture was dwindled down to nearly nothing. For a long time it was discouraging to me that I didn't look Native and that I didn't know much about my tribe and I didn't know what the future held for my tribe. Recently our tribe began to find history and artifacts that help our future to learn about our culture. Me and my mom have helped to put together the first Alutiiq culture camp for the Pacific Northwest that consisted of 25 eager learners and 5 teachers from early teens to our elders. It was a four day camp where we learned about our history, traditions, and our culture. It was an amazing, emotional, and encouraging opportunity to learn about my culture and it gave me a new hope and pride for my tribe. This just happened a month ago and we're already planning for our next one in 2020 to be bigger and even more of a learning opportunity.

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We went on a hike and before we started walking we had to pray for the land. We had to give back with this tobacco and in return we could walk its trails without disturbing the nature. In my picture i'm holding tobacco and the background is nothing but beautiful growung plants.we must pray for our earth everyday, and thank her for letting us see what beauty she brings. That is one of the ways i protect this precious earth, is by praying!

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