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Pį:wa ! (Greetings !) My name is Aalana I am a creative, fun and caring person a member of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe of NC & a Jingle Dress Dancer on the Powwow Trail. I am deeply devoted to my culture as well as sharing my culture with others and passing on our teachings to the future generations of our native youth !
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We are always doing family things on the weekend because my mom and dad are working all day and sometimes night time. Sometimes we go to magic mountain or universal studios, but I really like to swim and barbeque with my family in the river near my home town. It's called Reedley Beach!
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New tribal youth council! Preparing for an awesome jet boat ride.
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I'm a Suicide Prevention Coordinator in my community and one of my activities was after school green up clean up with the youth to pick up trash throughout our village. This activity took about a month because I was hosting some conferences throughout the month. But this was a success in cleaning our community as a team.
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Beautiful nature in the city of Lakewood,Ca. Nice trees and the sunset between the branches. Birds chirping and singing
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Kobema a kau. My name is Kobema. It means Captive woman and was passed from my great great grandmother. I love to go to the annual Indian Exposition in Anadarko, Oklahoma. It has been held since 1935. This picture is taken on the way there. The Kiowa language is dying with the elders, so I try to learn as much as I can. A-Ho for reading this.
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We love to cut up meat for drying
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This summer, not only have I been volunteering at a Native Cultural Center, at Four Winds American Indian Council, I am participating in a Cultural Math class at DU (Denver University) which is helping me become a better mathematician and teaching me cultural background and tying it into my heritage. In addition (I can't add any more photos due to the limit) I've been going to protests and rallies as well as testimonies to repeal the Columbus Day holiday in Colorado. Lastly, I've been helping plan the National Unity Conference which will be held in Denver from July 6th to the 9th.
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Although I'm 28 years old, I am just starting to step into the powwow arena. We are never too old to learn our traditions.
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Getting love and words of wisdom from Grandpa Thomas Muskrat at the 32nd Annual Bell Pow Wow, Bell, Oklahoma. We lost Grandma Sue Muskrat just a month before our community Pow Wow and it was a wonderful weekend to celebrate her life while offering my prayers to the Creator through my jingle dancing.
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This is my nephew-- I am an auntie to a 10 year old niece and 7 year old nephew. Because we are close in age I know they look at me and my actions and like to do what Auntie does, so I want to show them good choices and be a good role model. They are my Pride just as much as I am theirs
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Another private ceremony, i was on my way with my recovered addict uncle which I am proud. He and I are almost like a father and daughter due to my father leaving the picture. Elem indian colony we went
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This is a picture of my son, Lalʌnahawi. We are part of a group of 10 families that grow Oneida white corn together. A total of 6 acres. I take Lalʌnahawi out to the field and we sing our songs to the plants and weed by hand. On the outside of the corn we plant squash. We hope to someday also plant beans so it will be a complete three sisters garden. We been doing this for 2 summers now as a group. I also plant blue grow on my parent's land. This is to help teach our children our traditional ways and get back to our Native diet.
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My summer was spent gaining more knowledge and understanding of my family traditions. I am from the Navajo Nation (Diné), from the beautiful area of Round Rock, AZ. I attended my traditional ceremonies over the summer to help pray for my family and relatives. Being brought up in these ways has really had an impact on my identity, who I am, and the love and respect I have for myself and others. I love expressing myself through singing and creating a beautiful sound and tune for many to hear. In my way, I do it to allow others to hear the beautiful tune and reflect, reminisce. It's a blessing to go about each day on this road of life knowing Ill always have my culture and ceremonies with me. I intend to carry on my family tradition and pass it on to my younger siblings.
My Native pride comes with representing who I am wherever I go. I attended various conferences over the course of the summer and gained more perspective and insight into the lives of many tribes around the world. The biggest conference I attended was the 2017 UNITY Conference in Denver, It was an amazing experience to hear where many native individuals come from, share stories about my culture and where I come from, share songs with many tribes, learn new teachings, Learn new perspectives from each tribe, & give and gain blessings. #represent
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One way I connected with my culture was getting in tune with nature and forgetting about everything that life is throwing at you by surrounding yourself with nature and seeing how the creator made all this and will take care of everything which brought me closer to everything that I believe in due to my culture and what my people believe
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I #represented by running in my tribe's pageant. This was my second year competing and I actually won! My platform is cultural pride. I want to teach all native youth that they can be successful in anything that they do as long as they continue to learn about their culture, language, and traditions, and don't give up.
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This is me dancing during a powwow for a Boy Scout function
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Summer 2017: Navajo Baptist Ministries, ABA. I'm thankful these individuals have love for our native american youth and their future! This Summer I was able to reunite with the church group that visits from Arkansas. My closest friend Carolyn has been keeping in touch with me since I was in elementary school. I'm glad I got to see her for a week this summer, she comes to visit me in Sheep Springs, NM,along with her ministry, to educate the Native Youth about our Lord and savior. She's prayed for, cried with me and helped me through all the major points in my life. She has witnessed my success from elementary to high school and now I'm a Junior in college! I'm glad I have met her and have seen her again. She is my reassurance that Jesus lives and loves all. She also has always had faith in me. She and the whole ministry were the highlight of my summer.
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Since I was a little girl I have always followed behind my grandmother. I always wanted to be as determined as she was, as proud and resilient. Even now at twenty-one years of age, I find myself still following behind her trying my best to live up to the legacy she has made. I look at her brown hands and the wrinkles in her face and though she is weathered with age now, I still see the strength in her dark brown eyes. I see the determination she has to make sure that all of her future generations know who we are as people; that we know how important it is for us to care for the land because it takes care of us. That is why I still follow behind her in her garden. I cling to every song, every whispered prayer she sends up to the Creator hoping for a bountiful harvest in hopes that one day I may too have the ability she possesses to make life sprout and thrive so that our traditional ways may also continue to live.
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Went to a powwow, danced and talked with a good friend while dancing. A friend (Tony Austin) took the pic, but I gave a funny face while dancing. Good times and good laughter while having fun dancing.
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Me and a fellow group of adults travled to the Gulf Coast to learn about coastal conservation and how we can help the oyster habitat. We collected recycled oyster shells from a non-profit organization called Sink Your Shucks and put them back into Madagorda Bay so more oysters could use them for homes. Oysters play a big role in the environment because they filter feed the water for their food thus cleaning the water making it inhabitable for many other organisms. We created a man made oyster reef for not only future sea life to use it, but to also help stop over erosion from the ocean. The ocean erodes many parts of islands away and creating this artificial oyster reef slows down this process. Native American tribes used these oysters for food which was much easier to harvest rather than attacking other dangerous animals. This experience has opened my eyes to many job opportunities so I can personally help my environment heal.
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We can't forget where we come from and the teachings that have been passed down down from our ancestors. It's a blessing to still our language and culture alive. Íiná éí nízhóní!
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This is a picture of one of my host family's back yard. This was taken on my trip with my class with the Native American Community Academy, we worked all year to go to New Zealand to meet our Fauno (family in Maori). We didn't go to New Zealand for a vacation we went for a personal and cultural Exchange. NACA has sister schools in New Zealand and every two years a class goes down to reconnect with our fauno. The Trip was a very moving and emotional experience hearing the stories of their ancestors and how the ocean doesn't seperate us but rather connects us. The Maori people understand how important water is and they understand that despite's being 6,000 miles apart we were and always will be connected and related. They fed us and treated us like we their own and it didn't feel like we were strangers despite meeting one another for the first time. We shared stories, songs, tradition, culture, meals, and we shared our love. One thing that stuck with me after Aotearoa (New Zealand in Maori) is something an elder said, "we are not different we share a lot of things in common, there is evidence that our people came from your people and we know that, which is why when you come back to Aotearoa you have a second home to come back to." Aotearoa is my home as well as New Mexico.
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As Miss Northwest Indian Youth Confernce I've been honored with more opportunities to #represent my reservation, my tribe, and my people. I am balancing working for my tribes fish and wild life full time, club soccer 2 hours away, and being on the powwow trail! And I couldn't be more greatful. I love taking care of our animals and land, I love being active and playing the game of soccer, and I love dancing and celebrating my culture but most of all I love representing my culture in all that I do. Taking photos is just one way I can show the world that. Here are some photos I took of some strong indigenous women.
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This summer, my boyfriend & I organized with miscellaneous natives from different nations. We were Apache, Yaqui & Blackfeet protesting the use of Ceremonial Tipis at a Festival in which inebriated people were to party & get sloppy inside. They never asked for consent, there was no prayer when they were erected. So we came to say that we would expect more Cultural Sensitivity after the atrocities of the ND Access Pipeline & The Genocide on Natives that has been going on for over 500 years. Sadly the tipis were not taken down, but we made our presence known with one message: We Are Still Here.
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I am apart of the Mvskoke creek tribe. This is a picture of my sister, cousins and I taking part of our ceremonial dance called ribbon dance. It is a special dance to reconnect with our women ancestors and to give thanks to the women that are still here with us.
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This picture was taken after practicipating in the prayer run to the Top of Red Butte,
Pictured is the group of runners from the 2017 Gathering at Red Butte. Over 100 people attended in solidarity with the Havasupai Tribe to protect their land from uranium mining transport. They sponsored a 5 day camp in July, the message being to Honor & protect our sacred land, children, & future, Our mission is to save the Havasupai Baaja, our scared land & our future.
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I love taking photos with nature, rivers, mountains, lakes, etc. It keeps me in harmony with the earth and lets me pay homage to my ancestors who respected the land. I feel that way because I believe we have very little time to enjoy what's left to us Native and Indigenous people given by the creator seeing all the destruction and abuse being done to the earth.
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We were on our way back home to Idaho from Wyoming/Nebraska and stopped at Lincoln monument at summit, right near a (but but our) rez.
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This Summer I have been listening to alot of oldies. One of the songs is "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone. It's a funny story on how I started listening to it. My older brother who is now in college would play this song- I've never heard of the song in my life ever-he played the song for a few weeks until we went to see Guardians of the Galaxy and after watching the movie, I did nothing but listen to that song for weeks. I also asked my mom about it and she said it was made by Native Americans. I was actually happy so when ever I feel down, I just play this song and I also play the other oldies songs to lift my moods.
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My grandmother attends every powwow around our area and is known by thousands. She is a medicine woman, a pipe carrier, and our traditional prayer'er.
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Representing my people
Just knowing you are participating in royalty, by dancing and singing , traditional tribal songs that may ancestors sang and danced to. , gives me that connection....to our way of life...to our culture
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Starting off my Junior year at my highschool Native American Community Academy (aka. NACA) we went on a camping trip at a Girl Scout Camp in Rancho del Chaparral, Ranch is in Ponderosa Pines & Aspens in the Jemez Mountains. We got to utilize the area for about two whole days. The trip from Albuquerque, NM to Cuba, NM was about two hours long so as soon as we got to the camping grounds we choose our shelters we'd be staying in and there were hogans and Adirondack which I and my friends choose the Hogan and the staff had told us that the Hogans we're blessed when they were built years ago which was fasinating to me. The Shelters were open air structures so it was a new experience for me. After all that settling in all the juniors, seniors and staff got together on this grassy open field which then we'd be split up into four groups which we would then transition through out all the groups and in the four groups we would do different activities and building relationships between each other and the purpose was to connect with each other and the land too. So there was an Art group; We were let out into the forest to create art out of nature and find beauty and create beauty from flowers to branches and pine cones were what other students used but me and my friends took a different approach to the art in nature by incorperating nature with modern aesthetic. Hiking group; this was the fun group because we got to hike up the mountain and it negan to rain so it was exciting to hear the rain from a distance and then knowingly expect it to pour on you while also we got to see some aspen tree and take photos of the natural aesthetic. Meditation group; this was a relaxing and calm group we sat in a circle and were focusing on out breath and had acknowledged our surroundings and went back to focusing on our breathing in which was a crazy experience because I was so focused on meditation that I was really into the moment which caused me to nearly fall asleep lol but afterwards we all felt relaxed and rejuvinated from stretching too. Relationship building group; we played games that involves either two people or the entire group to uplift each other metaphorically because we had to trust eachother in order to complete the challenge. All these group activities were all purposley meant to connect us with our inner selves and to the land itself since we are all living and use the land to help us grow and change. As we are all Indigenous and Native the land is our mother earth and from the teachings they show us, we are taught to recconnect with our and everyones land and to also give back to mother earth by prayers and anyother way that shows appretiation for the life given to us.
(08/18/2017) @9:45pm
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Medicine man
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This summer I'm showing my Chahta (Choctaw) pride by serving as a legal intern for a Native American policy group in Washington D.C.. I just finished my first year of law school at Arizona State University in the Indian Legal Program. Here is a picture of me and svshki (my mom) in D.C.
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