Shakopee Awards $302,500 in Education and Youth Grants

ICTMN Staff
January 09, 2013
On January 7, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Prior Lake, Minnesota announced $302,500 in grants to 13 organizations, most of which are educational and primarily serve ...

American Indian Youth in Crisis: Tribes Grapple With a Suicide Emergency

Stephanie Woodard
October 10, 2012
It feels like wartime,” says Diane Garreau, a child-welfare official on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, in South Dakota, speaking of the youth-suicide epidemic sweeping India...

Cheyenne River Youth Project Gives Its Children a Better Life

Stephanie Woodard
December 15, 2011
As the autumn sun blazed crimson and gold on the western horizon and shadows lengthened, the orange tractor plied back and forth along rows of pale cornstalks...

Native American Teens Embrace Beautification Efforts and Expressing Themselves

ICTMN Staff
October 31, 2011
Native American teenagers participating in the Cheyenne River Youth Project’s (CRYP) Youth Leaders in Service program have been busy beautifying the city of Eagle Butte, South Dako...

School Supplies Drive Helps Hundreds of Native American Children

ICTMN Staff
September 05, 2011
Backpacks overflowing with school supplies were recently given out by the Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP) in Eagle Butte, South Dakota to about 450 students on the Cheyenne Riv...

Cheyenne River Youth Project Continues College Night Through May

ICTMN Staff
May 02, 2011
CRYP's College Night events will continue through May...

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