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Sandee, Cowlitz, is a happy, positive person who wants to learn to be an effective change agent for Native youth.

I would like to educate our youth on activities that are not excepted or tolerated. I want to teach our youth the native traditions and culture for future generations.

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Round Dance

In March, students from the Helena Indian Alliance All Nations Youth Council in Montana hosted a Round Dance for their community that focused on issues such as commercial tobacco and diabetes prevention. The event also featured singers, a hand drum contest and a meal with healthy foods. Over 300 youth and elders from throughout community attended the event, and learned and shared from each other.

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During March, we asked you to share what traditional foods you're eating during national nutrition month.

These are pacific lamprey, known locally as eels. They are a staple food during the time of late winter into the early spring when there are no salmon in the river yet. Lamprey have more healthy calories and omegas pound for pound than salmon, which is necessary after the long hard winters here on the north coast of California. We gather these by hooking them at the mouth of the Klamath River as they return to the river from the ocean. The eels are washed up on and near the shore by the waves allowing us to harvest. Further up the river you can set basket traps on high areas of the river to harvest the eels as they travel up the river.

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My Story

I used to be the one who would sit in the back of the room & cling to my Mom. After being bullied in school I didn't think I or my voice mattered or that I was beautiful. It was only when I attended the NCNAYO (North Carolina Native American Youth Organization) conference, a State wide conference for Native youth, that I felt like I could be more. I was amazed by how many youth came together to take part in the conference & that it was a youth led event! I was able to talk w/ youth my age, make friends, experience my culture & enjoy the speakers & workshops they had! After the conference I knew I had to be apart of NCNAYO so I ran for County Representative & got the position. I was truly happy to be around so many youth & not feel judged or less than. NCNAYO has done so much for me. I was able to become a leader, comfortable in my own skin & my own person. If it wasn't for NCNAYO I'd probably still be too afraid to say my own name out loud.

-Halona Benjamin (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina), age 18, is from Fayetteville, North Carolina and is passionate about bettering the lives of future Native Americans.

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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It’s time to stand up against sexual assault-share why it’s important to take action against sexual violence using #SAAM and take a picture holding the sign (download the sign by texting SAAM to 97779 or create your own) You could win up to $75.

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