Supporting Youth Leaders!
Bertha Greist learning to cut a fish.
Photo by Molly Shledon
Tyler Kramer posing with two caribou.
Photo by Lance Kramer.
Alan Sheldon hunting brants on the
Kobuk Lake. Photo by Becca Wesley.
2015 YOUTH LEADERSHIP
SUMMIT AND AURAQTUQ
(SUMMER) KICK OFF
TO SHARE IÑUPIAQ CULTURE AND PROMOTE
LASTING COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
An Arctic Generation Indigenous Event
Participating partners include: Qikiktagruk Iñupiaq Youth Council
(invited), NWABSD Youth Leaders (invited), Allison Akootchook Warden
(invited), MISS Movement Founders, Lance Kramer (NANA), Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and the Kotzebue Police Department.
Workshops about driving safety, hunting safety, healthy relationships,
healthy lands and culture, healthy decision making, and youth leadership. A summer kick off with a bonfire, food, dance, music, and competitions/races will follow.
WHEN: MAY 23, 2015 AT 8 AM
Breakfast will be served
WHERE: CITY OF KOTZEBUE YOUTH CENTER
Behind the City of Kotzebue Rec. Center
WHO: YOUTH ENTERING THE 6TH GRADE THROUGH
YOUTH ENTERING THE 9TH GRADE
RSVP: 907-442-2500 EX.171
Donations for Putyuk Children’s Home:
a regional emergency shelter for at-risk children/teens
We will accept donations for the Putyuk Children’s
Home in Kotzebue. Putyuk provides support and a safe
space for at-risk youth in Kotzebue.
The Youth Leadership Summit
will offer hands-on educational
workshops for the youth about
Iñupiaq culture and subsistence
It will allow students to speak
about what is important to
them and what issues they believe need to be address.
It will also provide students
with a fun and positive energy
to start off their summer! Not
only will students gain invaluable tools to become great
youth leaders, they will have
the chance to have fun in a
safe, positive environment.
The summit is interactive workshops, youth voicing what is
important to them, and produce a plan to mentor youth to
become youth leaders for years
to come.
Generation Indigenous
This event is a part of the Generation Indigenous initiative.
Gen-I is an effort to challenge
youth to become leaders in
their community by doing
something positive. This effort
is being done all throughout
the country by other Native
youth.
Spread the word! Volunteers
needed. Call Elizabeth Ferguson at 907-442-2500 ex.171.
The Northwest Arctic Borough Subsistence Mapping Project
Iñuuniałiqput Iḷiḷugu Nunaŋŋuanun ▪ Documenting Our Way of Life with Maps