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InvenTeam grant positively impacts Lower Brule community.

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Tribal School Wins MIT Grant Lower Brule High School, Lower Brule, SD, received a $10,000 InvenTeam grant from Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]—not only are they the first South Dakota rec...

March 17, 2020

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Does basketball provide a sense of inner peace and purpose?

Brandon Ecoffey

It never took much effort to find a game of basketball on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. If the weather was decent, all you needed was a ball and a hoop. When the sound of the ball slapping the pa...

March 13, 2020

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Sexual Assault: A Horrifying Reality for Native American Girls

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The following post contains mature themes and references. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This post comes a difficult time for all people. Due to COVID-19, many of us are cooped up in our hom...

January 17, 2020

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Living to Tell: A Sex Trafficking Victim's Account

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While this article was originally written and published in 2016, its contents are still relevant, today. In fact, according to Business Insider, "Since 2007, more than 49,000 cases of human traffickin...

January 9, 2020

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Growing Strong Together: Horses Inspire Healing for Native Youth

Joanne Lewis

Native Hope collaborated with the Growing Strong Together founder, Shane Avery, Santee, Nebraska, and youth participants to tell the story of the strength Native youth are finding from the Horse Natio...

December 18, 2019

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Hand Games to Halloween: Busy October for Native Hope

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October brought multiple opportunities to provide hope in action to our local schools and communities. We also continued our work on the baseball field of dreams with the Crow Creek District of the Cr...

November 6, 2019

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Powwows and Hand Sanitizer: Native Hope Meets Needs in Indian Country

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As we move into fall, Native Hope has been hard at work on projects in our local South Dakota community. In addition to our recent successful campaign to raise money for a baseball field for Native ch...

October 4, 2019

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Education and Youth Empowerment

Nikki and the Wolfpack Face Discrimination with Pride

Joanne Lewis

One of our first Native Hope Fellows, Nikki Lowe of the Chickasaw Nation, continues to make small strides within her community that make a difference for Native youth. Currently residing in Albuquerqu...

September 20, 2019

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Native Hope Leaders’ Society “Siouxper Elite” Peer to Peer Impact

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Native Hope Leaders’ Society member Ramez wants to create a positive impact on his friends and classmates from his native community. That’s why Ramez volunteers his time to teach youth and families to...

August 21, 2019

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InvenTeam grant positively impacts Lower Brule community.

Does basketball provide a sense of inner peace and purpose?

Sexual Assault: A Horrifying Reality for Native American Girls

Living to Tell: A Sex Trafficking Victim's Account

Growing Strong Together: Horses Inspire Healing for Native Youth

Hand Games to Halloween: Busy October for Native Hope

Powwows and Hand Sanitizer: Native Hope Meets Needs in Indian Country

Nikki and the Wolfpack Face Discrimination with Pride

Native Hope Leaders’ Society “Siouxper Elite” Peer to Peer Impact

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The History of Thanksgiving from the Native American Perspective

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