Safeguarding Natural Heritage (SNH) is a free summer outreach program to help students explore careers in agricultural sciences within and outside the environs of a Tribal community. As an SNH student, you’ll live on a college campus for 2 weeks and learn from university professors and USDA experts—plant and animal Read more…
[In 2023] The Bundle Carriers Camp was held at the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Memorial Park (the original site of the Tekawitha Orphanage and Mission School). Fifteen youth attended and were between the ages of 10 and 19. All youth are citizens of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation. Campers Read more…
The Michigan Indian Leadership Program (MILP) is a one-week indigenized summer experience co-sponsored by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) and the Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education at MSU. The 2024 Michigan Indian Leadership Program will be held July 14-19. Applications are due April 15, Read more…
The Indigenous Youth Empowerment Program (IYEP) is a collaboration between AIIS and the Lansing School District’s Title VII Native American Program, Michigan State University’s Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, the Ingham County Health Department, and Lansing Community College. IYEP is a program for all Indigenous youth and families Read more…
The SONS of Mvskoke was officially established on November 4, 2016 from a grassroots movement of Muscogee (Creek) men who wish to continue the practice of reinforcing personal responsibility as a value of our people. The goal of SONS of Mvskoke is to develop Native American boys into responsible men, Read more…
From June through July, Sinte Gleska University Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi “Bringing the Family Back to Life” offered the following Sunkawakan (Horse) Culture Camps to Sicangu Lakota children from the Rosebud Reservation. Three of the camps were day camps held at the SGU Horse Ranch outside of Mission on the Read more…
Dló̜ó̜’ Yázhí Day Camp is a nonprofit summer camp in Thoreau, New Mexico that serves children on and around Navajo Nation. DYDC focuses on building self-esteem, resilience, and connectedness in campers. Visit https://www.dlooyazhi.com/ for more information. The Dló̜ó̜’ Yázhí Day Camp (DYDC) completed its 9th summer of operation in 2023. Read more…
Calling Indigenous youth and cultural knowledge-holders. 2022 RIISE participants gather around a waterfall in the Grand Canyon. AMBER BENALLY Application deadline: May 1, 2024 (participants accepted on a rolling basis) Join us July 15-23, 2024 for the third annual Grand Canyon Regional Intertribal Intergenerational Stewardship Expedition (RIISE). The Grand Canyon holds many Read more…
Summer Youth Practicum For more, visit: https://nafws.org/youth-early-professional/summer-youth-practicum/ The Summer Youth Practicum (SYP) is designed to provide Native American students (incoming 10th – 12th grade) an opportunity to gain hands-on and in-lecture experience in the interdisciplinary components of natural resource management and Indigenous knowledge. One of the goals of the NAFWS Read more…
The Mission Mountains Youth Crew Program (MMYC) exposes youth living on the Flathead Reservation in Western Montana to career pathways in natural resources and helps build a bridge to college through a summer job program. In 2021, the National Forest Foundation ran a pilot of the Program with a crew Read more…