“When you jump off a cliff into a pool of water, the impact can be strong enough to compress your spine, break bones, or give you a concussion. Human tolerance can only survive an impact close to a 186-foot-free-fall” explained UNITY 25 Under 25 Awadree Ajahrain, “sharing my personal story with a bunch of random […]
Learn more at the Tribal Youth Resource Center’s Blog July 11, 2022 by Kaitlin Martinez Tribal Youth Resource Center’s Guest Blogger Kaitlin Martinez, O’odham and Dine and current Tribal Youth Resource Center Youth Ambassador shares a suggested approach to meaningfully engage tribal youth in cultural teachings. Tribal Youth Resource Center Youth Ambassadors are active in […]
UNITY’s recent 25 Under 25 Awardee Jasmine Lamas, of the Gila River Indian Community, shared she “was excited that I had the opportunity to host my very first workshop at UNITY! I had lots of fun working with the youth and, it was amazing to see the youth work together in order to bring their […]
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”35887″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The National UNITY Council elected its new 2022-23 Executive Committee Members who were honored at UNITY’s annual Gala during the National UNITY Conference this July. Imagine nearly 2,000 Native youth from around the country listening to powerful messages for five days at the National UNITY Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, presented by the Fort […]
Join UNITY on July 29th for this free training at the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm (lunch provided). The Heal Circle gatherings will cover the community readiness model, asset mapping, and building youth council support systems in 12 identified sectors. It will prepare youth councils on how to […]
UNITY Intern Caleb Dash reported: “Recently NCAI ( The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) recently hosted its annual midyear conference in Anchorage, Alaska and UNITY youth leaders took part. During the meeting, tribal leaders addressed many issues regarding Indian Country were talked about and discussed by tribal leaders all over the country, such as […]
The PBS series Roadtrip Nation (RTN) will soon feature three Native college students who embark on a journey from Arizona to Oklahoma. The series is part of of the Native Way Forward series that will air on PBS in July. This road trip captures empowering stories that give students the confidence and tools to start […]
Victoria (Vicki) Vasques, the owner of Tribal Tech LLC, located in Virginia, stopped by the UNITY office recently to present a $10,000 check to the organization. Vasques, who also created the Ronald Maese Peralta Foundation (RMP), is Diegueno of the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians. Vasques, who was joined by her sister Michele Matteson […]
Would you like to serve as news anchors for UNITY News? UNITY is seeking one male news anchor and one female anchor to host daily News segments at this year’s National UNITY Conference. If you’re planning to attend the conference and you’d like to be considered as a host, all you have to do is submit a 0:35 – 0:40 audition video. You don’t know what to say? Not […]
Read the full article here: https://theberrics.com/madars-apse-apache-skateboards-red-bull-skate-tales Red Bull‘s ‘Skate Tales’ series is a deep dive into the lesser-known subcultures in skateboarding—groups that just keep doing their own thing, whether we see it or not. The six-part exploration of this underground element, hosted by famous outlier Madars Apse, which takes you from Japan to the Ethiopian skate […]
