By MONA GABLE MAY 26, 2020 Michelle Tom stared into the screen. The Navajo doctor had just finished a grueling shift at the Winslow Indian Health Care Center urgent care facility in Winslow, Ariz., caring for Covid-19 patients. Now, she was spending her Friday night speaking via livestream to Native American youth about the pandemic. […]
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UNITY affiliated youth councils around the country are finding ways to meet to discuss their initiatives and continue their community service projects. Youth on the Yavapai Apache Nation in Arizona met last month via Zoom video conferencing. They are re-organizing as a youth council. By the end of the meeting, the youth decided to work […]
$6,000 in cash prizes! Click Here To Enter The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) is partnering with UNITY to offer a business plan competition. The winners will be announced at the National UNITY Virtual Conference. WHAT DO THE WINNING TEAMS WIN? 1st Place $3,000.00 plus 3 complimentary registrations to 2021 National UNITY […]
The NCUIH Youth Advisory Council , in partnership with the United National Indian Tribal Youth Inc. offered resources and tools for Native youth across Indian Country during a National Virtual Native Youth Healing Gathering. The UNITY Peer Guides were featured as guest presenters to share the Healing Indigenous Lives Initiative and ways they are finding healing through using […]
Indigenous undergrads talk about how they defy stereotypes and engage with their cultures at the Ivy League school by Meghanlata Gupta Special to Indian Country Today At Yale University, Indigenous people make up a small percentage of enrollment: Out of over 13,000 students, a little over 100 identify as American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawai’ian, First […]
Today’s mainstream perspective of “health and fitness” changes by the decade, yet the interpretation of that very phrase, “health and fitness” can differ greatly from calling it “health and wellness”. For some, exercise gives an energy and confidence boost for the day,while for some others, exercise means working out or training to lose weight and looking good. […]
Stuck at home looking for something creative to do? The Museum of Indigenous People wants to see your creative coloring on a brand new illustration by Hopi artist Abel Nash (Village of Walpi, Corn Clan). Send your entry to the MIP and Abel Nash himself will judge the top creative coloring in four age groups. […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONYC! “Celebrating 25 years of memories, songs, stories, and good food. All night round dancing to early morning breakfast to late night meetings, changing lives continues to be the goal. Giving thanks to those who have sacrificed and paved the way for new light to shine. Dedicated to the past, present, and future […]
