August 6-7, 2024
Theme: Community Wisdom and Engagement: Teaching Resilience to Our Indigenous Youth.
Cost: $35, while students are free.
Location: Central Wyoming College in Riverton.
Credit: PTSB credit available.
Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, from 1-5 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
You will enjoy workshops that benefit and edify all individuals involved with Native American student education. Areas of emphasis include:
- Enhancing health of Indigenous youth/Supporting emotional needs of students.
- Best teaching practices for Native American youth.
- Understanding and appreciating Native American culture, history, and traditions.
- Wyoming “Indian Ed for All” social studies standards.
- Strengthening resilience and perseverance/Empowering youth.
- Unifying school and community.
“Tribal Buffalo Restoration: Culturally Relevant Reconnection and Revitalization.”
Aug. 6 at 3:30 p.m.
“The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes maintain cultural belief systems and values that have been passed down through the generations, that can help guide one on their journey through life. Education is an important pathway to finding meaning and purpose on that journey, and elders of both Tribes have maintained and encouraged young people to pursue an education, and return home to help their people. I found my pathway to helping my people with buffalo, and working to restore a connection that has been in place for time immemorial.”
– Jason Baldes (Eastern Shoshone) is an ecologist who has devoted his life’s work to restoring bison to public lands.
dêtetsi vo’i oninjakan Winding Path
11 a.m., Aug. 7
dêtetsi vo’i oninjakan Winding Path is a powerful short film produced by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Robin Honan and co-directed by acclaimed filmmakers Alexandra Lazarowich and Ross Kauffman, in collaboration with University of Utah Health and its Native American Summer Research Internship (NARI) program.
A question-and-answer session with the film’s subject, Jenna Murphy (Eastern Shoshone), will follow.
Frybread Face and Me
8 a.m., Aug. 7
Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother’s ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family’s past and themselves.
The Complete Works – Assessment and Curriculum Workshop
August 8th – 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Lunch on your own)
Central Wyoming College Campus – ITECC building.
Registration is limited to 50 participants.
More information or to register, click here.
If you need additional information, please contact Kathy Wells, CWC VP for Academic Affairs, 307.855.2111.
2023 Youth Pacesetter Award Winners
These Native American high school students were recognized at the 2023 conference for their leadership, academics, attendance, and community service. Congratulations!
Lorena Juarez
Ayden Spoonhunter
Emilia Medina
Isabelle Paddock
Amanda Phillips
Jami Savage
Darian Bell
Brae’don Lincoln
Jacob Prell
Jhett Schwahn
Tehya Bagaso
Kerrigan Dana
Angela Spoonhunter
Allison Tidzump
Dawson Richards
Yvonne Camacho
Hayden Blumenshine
Kayla Horsen
Kei Serawop
Jaslyn Cowboy-Whatley
Tristan Moss
Alberto Spotted
Darrius Boyer
Layla C’Bearing
