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Dropping A Knowledge Bomb Part 1

Hello everybody, it’s been awhile! I wanted to write this blog in relation to the new school year coming up…. Whether you’ll be starting high school or college; I’m going to give you some knowledge (hence the knowledge bomb) I wish I would’ve known if I was young again. You…
Categories: Becoming Independent

Constance Owl

Hi everyone. I am Constance Owl, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina. I am 16 years old and a rising senior in high school. I will be contributing to the We R Native blog over the next several months in an effort…
Categories: Identity

Canoe – Kayak Team

Check out these Chickasaw youth! Kayaking is a fun and unique way to get some exercise while working together to achieve a common goal. 
Categories: Fitness, Friendships, Water

A Native Candidate’s Story

When Barbara Vicknair (enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and a current Town Council member of Murphy, North Carolina) was a young girl, she became keenly aware of walking between two cultures — that of her Cherokee father and of her non-Native mother. Like many young Native…
Categories: History, Identity, Identity and Native Pride, Language, My Culture, My Life, Sovereignty, Traditional Stories and Teachings, Traditions, Wellness and Healing

Womens Traditional Dance

Southern Cloth and Buckskin dancers are very similar, so much so that in some powwows, southern cloth and buckskin dancers compete under the same category of Women’s Traditional. Both styles are, in a sense, meant to evoke the dignity and grace of our traditional First Nations women, and by dancing…
Categories: My Culture, PowWow
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