NIDA Contest Entry

Nikko, Chickamauga Cherokee, Age 19, Washington

Power of Knowing

Here is the link to my video submission of a short movement piece!

Hello, I’m Chickamauga Cherokee and I’ve been involved with the Indigenous community in the greater Seattle area since I was a kid. I want my art piece to highlight the important of educating young people about substances to help them not misuse them rather than scaring youth into staying away from them.

In Maine, many native children were taken and placed in non-native families up until the 1970s. I believe my late grandmother was one of these children, but I don’t know if these records were kept. How can we reconnect when there was so much displacement?

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