Jump to navigation

The University of Arizona Wordmark Line Logo White
Home
  • Indigenous Governance Database
  • CONSTITUTIONS RESOURCE CENTER
  • Home
  • Key Resources
    • Conferences, Seminars & Symposia
    • NNI and Harvard Project Research
    • Great Tribal Leaders of Modern Times
    • Good Native Governance
    • Indigenous Leaders Fellows
    • Native Nation Building TV
    • Leading Native Nations
    • Emerging Leaders
  • NNI Tools
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • My Library
  • Login
Indigenous Governance Database

youth education

Rebuilding Nations: The Next Generation

Rebuilding Nations: The Next Generation
Rebuilding Nations: The Next Generation
Turtle Mountain Ojibwe youth from North Dakota tell the story of their Tribe’s history and the importance of cultural revitalization today. Produced in partnership with Twin Cities PBS and producer/director Missy Whiteman. Special thanks to Dr. Twyla Baker, Alexis Davis, Colten Birkland, and Eddie...
Read more

Theresa Arevgaq John INTV

Theresa Arevgaq John INTV
Theresa Arevgaq John: Alaska indigenous governance through traditions and cultural values
Theresa Arevgaq John is a well known Y’upik cultural advocate and Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies and the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has intimate knowledge about cultural practices within Indigenous governance. She advocates for balance...
Read more

Cheyenne River Youth Project’s Garden Evolving Into Micro Farm

Cheyenne River Youth Project’s Garden Evolving Into Micro Farm
Cheyenne River Youth Project's Garden Evolving Into Micro Farm
When the Cheyenne River Youth Project started its organic garden in 1999, staff at the 26-year-old nonprofit would never have guessed where the little garden would take them. The two-acre Winyan Toka Win–or “Leading Lady”–garden is the heart of the youth project, and is becoming a micro farm...
Read more

Shannon Douma and Richard Luarkie: "How Do We Choose Our Leaders and Maintain Quality Leadership?" (Q&A)

Shannon Douma and Richard Luarkie: "How Do We Choose Our Leaders and Maintain Quality Leadership?" (Q&A)
Shannon Douma and Richard Luarkie: How Do We Choose Our Leaders and Maintain Quality Leadership? (Q&A)
Shannon Douma and Richard Luarkie (Pueblo of Laguna) field questions from seminar participants about how the Pueblo and also the Santa Fe Indian School's Summer Policy Academy groom Pueblo youth to take over the reins of leadership of their nations.
Read more

Cheyenne River Youth Project Turns 25, Launches Endowment and Keya Cafe Featuring Homegrown Food

Cheyenne River Youth Project Turns 25, Launches Endowment and Keya Cafe Featuring Homegrown Food
Cheyenne River Youth Project Turns 25, Launches Endowment and Keya Cafe Featuring Homegrown Food
Twenty-five years ago, Julie Garreau (Cheyenne River Lakota) developed the Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP) from a converted bar on Main Street in the tribe's capital Eagle Butte, South Dakota. For 12 years she volunteered her time to get an after-school program off the ground...
Read more

Indigenous Youth Help USFWS Restore Fish Passage on Cochiti Pueblo

Indigenous Youth Help USFWS Restore Fish Passage on Cochiti Pueblo
Indigenous Youth Help USFWS Restore Fish Passage on Cochiti Pueblo
Ask a group of teenagers their idea of fun and you might get answers like hanging out with friends, dodging opponents during a game of laser tag or playing their favorite video games. But for a group of Native American youth from several of New Mexico’s pueblos, fun meant working outside on a warm...
Read more

A Solution: Sowing the future for tribal youth

A Solution: Sowing the future for tribal youth
A Solution: Sowing the future for tribal youth
For aspiring farmer Vernal Sam, 24, the physical labor came easily. Like many Tohono O'odham, he'd helped out on his uncle's cattle ranch as a kid, bringing in cash when his family needed it, and he'd helped his grandfather bury traditional tepary beans and squash seeds in the brown clay soil. What...
Read more

Project Falvmmichi 60

Project Falvmmichi 60
Project Falvmmichi 60
This one-minute video provides an overview of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma's Project Falvmmichi, which won an Honoring Nations award from the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development in 2008.
Read more

NCFNG: Youth and First Nation Governance

NCFNG: Youth and First Nation Governance
NCFNG: Youth and First Nation Governance
Satsan (Herb George), President of the National Centre for First Nation Governance, talks about the importance of involving youth in Nation Rebuilding.
Read more

The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe

The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
For ten thousand years, a Nation of people lived and prospered on the lands now known as the Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington. These strong people of the S'Klallam Tribes had a system of governance, engaged in commerce, managed natural and human resources, and exercised power over their...
Read more
Subscribe to youth education

IGD Database Search

Enter a search term

Quick Links

  • What's New at the Native Nations Institute?
  • Indigenous Governance Program
  • NNI Radio
  • US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network
  • About
  • NNI Hub
  • Key Resources
  • Constitutions Resource Center
  • Indigenous Governance Database
  • Login

The Native Nations Institute and The University of Arizona make efforts to ensure the information presented is accurate and up to date, but make no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the content contained on this website.  This website's content is the opinion of the specific author, not statements of advice, opinion, or information from The University of Arizona, and contains links to third party sites.  The University of Arizona is not responsible for and neither approves nor endorses third party website content.  Information presented on this website and the registered trademarks, service marks, wordmarks, and logos of the Native Nations Institute and the University of Arizona may not be reproduced without express written permission. 

The University of Arizona respects intellectual property and privacy rights.  Please refer to The University of Arizona's Copyright Notice and Information Security & Privacy policies for more information.


© 2021 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The University of Arizona.