Young Warrior Society sovereignty camp

Our people once here lived with knowledge of values that came from our creation stories, plant medicines and traditional foods thats sustained us to live healthy, healthy,happy and abundantly. We were known as kind generous people who lived closely to the earth and with the sacred wisdom from our ancestors. Our goal is to return to that source of life, to remind our youth and our communities what self sustainability is, to encourage them to honor the values of our cultural ways of life and self resiliency, generosity, and food sovereignty to live healthy in our heart, mind body and spirit.  This way of life teaches fortitude, courage, unity, gratitude and honor. This is the true way to a life with peace and happiness and with support of a family that includes our natural world and all life.  working together we save lives and create better health and holistic wellness.

Barriers are here in a isolated food desert that has the highest poverty and unemployment rates in our state. Statistically combined with a equally high drop out rate and high mortality rates from suicide and poor health. We live in a food desert with NO organic foods in our tribal stores and no outreach programs such as adult diabetes education, cultural programs or wellness programs. Our encouragement to our people is demonstrate how we may cross over racial and social boundaries to enhance our health and wellness and learn new skills such as Perma culture, herbal medicine, traditional culture and ancient life skills and rites of passages as a way to encourage growth, and well being in the mind body and spirit. We have 9,500 tribal members here and only one elder fluent speaker and no fluent tribal storytellers or herbal medicine keepers. Mind: education into modern technology such as Perma culture, food preservation skills, green sustainable energy development, ecology. video/lights/music, Body: indigenous fitness games, wellness talking circles and ceremony, physical fitness, outdoor survival training, spirit: ceremonies, rites of passages, healing historic trauma, storytelling and song. All taught by experienced educators following core values of Honor, Empower Respect and Service. 

 we create a safe welcoming atmosphere that is interesting, fun, exciting yet instills the discipline, hands on outdoor learning that indigenous youth excel in. We offer a huge variety of educational opportunities in  both ancient indigenous culture and modern technology skills to inspire: ARTS: beading, dancing, drumming, crafts, cooking, video creation, blog and social media creation, developing how to and instructional videos, ACTION: creating educational data/assessments, teaching, learning, helping, giving, doing, thinking, planning ADVENTURE: field trips into traditional territories to learn life skills, values, wisdom and knowledge from elders and cultural leaders. Learn outdoor life skills and create video, music, develop educational videos thru adventure. AWARENESS: learning traditional storytelling, songs, dances and survival life skills and culture as well modern ecology, and relationship to the environment, plant and animal life and to humanity and respect toward all people.  We have two years experience and have seen school kids that teachers warned us "have no interest or desire to learn!" arrive here and become first people in their modern families to learn indigenous skills, songs and stories that they were excited to return and learn and do more. We offer a huge variety of traditional and modern hands on skills .

We started as volunteers at our local indigenous schools (Paschal Sherman Indian School, Nespelem Elementary school, Lake Roosevelt High School and Nespelem Boys and Girls Club). Sharing educational teachings steeped in the local values and customs of our ancient tribal heritage. These are the things not taught in local schools and are fast becoming lost with the entertainment and modern technology and games youth are more interested in. 

I am a cultural educator and community planner and event specialist as a community center director for a total of over 20 years. working with the youth I see the disparity of our loss of culture and how that effects youth who come lost, seemingly torn between the balance and understandings of the two world (old and modern) they live and struggle to understanding their place and acceptance. This leads to many of our social ills and disparity in our homes and self conflict that often leads to suicide, depression, anger, violence, addictions, drop outs and poor health. 

As a community leader I became skilled in fundraising, networking and community event coordinating. I have since assembled a volunteer community based team that comprises skilled professionals such as: Perma cultists, herbologists, para educators, outdoor survivalists, White Bison well-briety fire-starters, sporting coaches, cultural leaders, tribal elders, native legal council, elder peacekeepers, tribal ceremonial leaders, school teachers, ecologists, indigenous crafts people, tribal hunters/fishers/gatherers, inventor, storytellers and grand parents. 

Working together we have held 3 free camps open to ALL people of ALL colors to join us here on a one acre property in Nespelem Washington, that has been known as the Warrior Sovereignty Camp. WE have reached over 300 youth here and over 1,500 youth in our school outreach program as well over 10,000 thru tribal newspapers, and over 35,000 world wide thru a world travel show and over 10,000 nationally thru pod casts and over 30,000 thru social media thus far. Our teachings come from our historical teachings of life thru the four seasons as we were traditionally educated thru the changing of the seasons that were structured to our foods, our medicines, our weather, our lodging, our tribal connections and our stories that formed values such as Honor or our life ways, self empowerment, respect to all life and service to our community.

At this camp we gather and we communicate and learn from our elders who help lead us the ways of protocol and remind of of respect and humility. We are a matriarical society traditionally, so we also seek leadership from our women in guiding us thru direction of our food sovereignty, food preservation and nurturing ourselves toward healing and growth.  We have strong cultural and ceremonial leaders who lead us in prayer and sacred values of rites and ceremonies that cannot be forgotten as they are the foundation for the vitality of our culture. We are inclusive so we have non indigenous relatives and allies who come to help, to support, to teach much of our modern technology such as green energy, Perma culture, green house, aqua phonics, repurposing, composting, and reusable energies. 

We have four members of our volunteer team who have since been hired into our local school systems and work with the youth as para educators and one as a local college instructor and one who has a indigenous law firm and all have strong support and many of us with front line humanitarian and ecological activism experience.  I myself have volunteered and have learned STEM education thru a pilot project with Washington State University-school of education, to learn cultural responsive indigenous science-connecting land, language and culture for indigenous STEM education. 2019

I have also attended community healing and wellness training thru the Native Wellness Institute 2019

Become a certified Native Youth fitness leaders and community fitness coach thru the Native American Fitness Council 2019

I have traveled across the country to learn from schools, colleges and community groups as a public speaker and indigenous educator. I currently continue to teach online classes via ZOOM to colleges and high schools and am working with local tribal schools to develop programs and indigenous land courses for the upcoming school year (volunteer). In October I will offer my first TED X talk that is committed to the topic here highlighting the success and vision of the Young Warrior Society as we hope to grow further to other indigenous communities in our region and sate with the we hope to inspire more regions and tribes to take their leadership roles in developing similar programs within their own traditional territories nation wide. Thus we become less reliant on our tribes to care for our personal needs and less reliant on Indian health Service, we become more reliant in developing food sovereignty and may even promote self residency and job opportunities. Eventually we become less reliant on the state or federal governments by bridging our connections to one another just like our ancestors did who had a great wealth thru knowledge and skills of the lands and a vast trade net work. 

We are offering the tools to survive and to thrive that is very unique and highly attractive to our indigenous ways of hands on education. To create a modern twist we are promoting modern technology combined with ancient tribal wisdom and protocols yet to heal and inspire our education of the mind body and spirt. with guidance from cultural leaders we careful respect this delicate balance between the two. learning becomes fascinating by utilizing even deeper thinking into, arts, humanity and science to create sustainable solutions thru technology and net working to creating bigger bridges to cross into bigger territories.

national exposure: our leadership is highly visible as one of most seen faces of the indigenous stand at Standing Rock as a environmental and human rights activist. The inspiration from Standing Rock has since been gained a national net work that is called upon for their support, advice and donations to continue this land and culture driven initiative. Social media and updates of this camp reach 20k to 50k viewers world wide and have been featured on music videos, magazines and world travel video series as a result. 

UNITY: led by a vast humanitarian effort to support the youth we are crossing a bridge that has not been crossed in our time to support the survival of the indigenous culture and to food sovereignty efforts thru calling on non indigenous educators to help with the modern technology and skills of this era as well the tribal leaders and elders to keep us grounded with our tribal sovereignty always at the forefront. 

We are a self started community initiative that has been self sustainable thru our own efforts, generosity and action. WE shall continue to strive toward creating additional resources, data, assessments and "edu-tainment" with modern technolgy to create interest and expose that will surely impress further growth with youth, schools, and bigger audiences because we are NOT limited to only one town or one tribe or one singular person.We are UNITY and together thru communication and with some media exposure such as a documentary will be thrive nation wide. 

video is the primary technology as we are visual learners as well as hands on. With the COVID epidemic we are switching gears to visual technology as our current educational experiences seemingly indicates this is the way the future of education. The importance of our storytelling, indigenous music, dance and nature will be highlighted thru modern story boards, video editing software, video camera technology, music that includes modern and traditional music to enhance the visual spectacle surely to impress the younger students as well adult. Arts, visuals, props, projectors, music controlled lighting, and experimental sounds and vibration of color and sound effects shall bring traditional storytelling (wisdom/values/teachings) to life and create an explosion of sensory learning that includes eyes, ears, nose, mouth, movement, touch and action).

furthermore, students and community shall be included in further action steps toward creating music, video, props and stories into media such as: video, blogs, music, 

mastery shall come with practice and performance that will include story creation (ancient storytelling/props) thru community/youth performances including: lights, video, music, stage type production. 

social media is huge so is video editing technology, music and adventure. these are what interests kids and this is what we must focus on to create success. So activating our survival skills, our wisdom, our stories that include our teachings, music, dance and songs must be recorded in a way that kids take leadership roles and actively pursue opportunities to create with the technology of today, guided by the wisdom of tribal elders/leaders. 

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it is less common approach as we have very few traditional storytellers left and few to none willing to utilize the modern technology 

included in the attachments are: 

video: the young warrior society youth. A video including the youth who learned hands on educational skills of survival, Perma culture, indigenous life skills, crafts, green energy, and food processing. Skills many never learned in their lives but as seen here the excitement and the new found pride into their basic steps of introduction in this real life education process. 

video: the world nomads. A video demonstration the power and impact of our cultural ceremonies and correlations to youth finding themselves lost in this world and their connection to the earth and identity . Thru this short video we also demonstrate our connections around food, around song and dance and how it opens a wider connection to cultures around the globe. 

Study links included are indication of Native Youth education needs and modern institutional misconceptions of native education that often miss the requirements of our youth. 

storytelling to promote wellness in indigenous communities. Showing how our stories bring us value and bring our teachings and understanding and connection to the world we live in to life as a educational tool to decolonize our healing from historic trauma. 

change our relationship to the foods we eat and our respect to our relations

Actions: learning tribal creation stories and teachings about food and relationship building. 

elders, traditional storytellers, language speakers and cultural leaders share stories, songs, teachings of food and human relationship thru hands on engaging stories that include how food was given, dances of unity and honoring and recognizing our tribal relationships and respect to foods and humanity.

lectures, storytelling, shown how to demonstrations, and actual practice of all these formative educational knowledge.

Assessment of diets, and assessments of youth programs nutrional diets shall be conducted. Knowledge of organic foods, herbal medicines, traditional foods and Perma culture also shall be conducted and health survey.

outputs: short term, hands on skill building of food growing techniques, knowledge of where to find plants medicines, traditional foods harvesting and preparation and preservation shall be conducted and recorded. elder to youth education shall be conducted. with skill building also includes acts of generosity, humility , values and growing as they begin learning. assessments of new skills recorded and compared to their starting point and discussed. New ideas shared and reviewed with additional skill sharing and additional traditional knowledge backed with scientific data and modern technology and studies that prove the validity of traditional wisdom. sharing and giving of stories, songs, dances as youth and community will learn hands on skills and mastery will come when they are confident to conduct these themselves In public and recorded thru video.

long term: video creation of learning process, data collection indicating changes and awareness of eating habits, that shall be made public thru social media, blogs, tribal newspaper and other articles to inspire change to our tribal youth programs, schools, and tribal stores to offer affordable organic foods and stimulate interest to the benefits of our plant medicine knowledge and benefits of relationship building to our environment and human relatives thru stories, songs, dances and ceremonies.  A full length documentary shall be scripted for production. 

currently serving in person camp: 300 youth per year total head count with approx 250 adults who attend thru the year. social media includes about 5k to 30k who receive info over social media 

in one year, with the advent of TED X talk and with additional video and support from MIT and enhancement of technology as well upcoming magazine article and completion of land camp we look to increase visibility to

youth attending camp 300-600. Adults who attend camp 300-500. social media will increase with additional quality videos and with additional technology and networks to 50,000 to 70k. By this time we shall have the camp fully completed and be able to focus more on the technology aspects of creating brilliant video displays that will inspire and awe audience and create a stir into indian country and the technology communities. I feel our bridge building capacities will really generate a huge support of tech savvy allies that will snowball after this initial phase. 

five years  all local tribal schools in our program which includes over 1,400 students, our camps shall expand to more local community members and in our immediate region alone we will host over 2,000 community members regionally. However we shall aim to grow further and our numbers may increase double this number by then. Social media: we will gain following and views thru a national campaign and education and media that will reach over 100,000 to 300,000 people with some videos and documentaries over 700,000 plus. 

first years goals: develop video and in person presentations to local tribal schools. create media content for social media campaign, develop logo, stickers and promo. offer storytelling, instructional classes on food sovereignty at young warrior camp. complete build and advertise in tribal papers goals and assessment tools. Create work groups to formulate workshops and planning for community events to encourage growth and community involvement. host camps, trainings and workshops to community documenting video and learning data and process. Begin national level talks that include other tribes, states and communities. 

five years our goal will be to have enriched other tribes thru a national leadership presentation which TED X and MIT fellowship shall enhance. Thus, with media/technology/social media our hopes will be to have created a LLC to promote eco tourism, and promote inter tribal trade networks of produce, medicines, food products, skill share, technology advancement and green energy to elevate tribal self sovereignty that is grounded in tribal culture, tribal values with respect to our tech minded youth of today and guided by cultural teachers. Youth with technology and respect to traditional cultural teachings growing up and taking over leadership roles is our ultimate goal. Within two years we shall be fully self sustainable and ready for national growth into other regions who invite success and leadership. 

current barriers is: social distancing is slowing down progress on our land village which itself hold the biggest key to our success. We are currently about 60% completed of the village and hope to be about 80% but due to social distancing our aim at thee very latest is by fall. 

financial : to complete the other 20% of build $5,000 + will still be needed however we could still continue at 80% but will not be satisfied until we attain 100% complete build of project.

long term barriers: finding funding and compatible video documentary to highlight and showcase this work and project in motion that will enhance our national exposure and inspiration to the nation. 

cultural barriers, working with non indigenous educators who may have some difficulty turning off their "logical thinking centers" so to speak and to communicate at the spiritual and natural levels of the indigenous First Nations will be a hot topic in moving forward. 

healing historic trauma and social ills: teaming up with skills interveners skilled trauma informed workers, PTSD and spiritual wisdom keepers will always be necessary as we begin dialogues of heavy communication into healing, inter racial relationship buildings, and ending racism on all sides which will require us to walk thru long term historic trauma and racial/social programming

financial: currently working to form a non profit and a partnership with the North Central Washington Economic alliance and Native development fund to promote work as well other partnerships to gain support to finish land project and move toward creation of educational implementation. 

possible ventures into eco tourism into camp to create self sustainability and growth into agricultural productions. 

cultural: honoring, giving, sharing, helping and learning from our elders it is wise to always honor our elders, share with our community and learn from our leaders and community in which to continue a positive working relationship building and stimulate partnerships and growth. 

same goes for when we venture into other communities and or tribes is to always carry integrity of protocol and respect thru sharing, helping, giving, asking, learning before doing. Communication is key and training team and coordinating these forward efforts must always consider our First Nations protocols of respect. 

video/documentaries/ media: currently speaking and inviting founder and director of Sacred Ecology to our land camp as well film maker/documentary for Akitcita (premiered at sun dance film festival 2018) release in 2020. As well personal working experience in upcoming feature film titled the Orphan Train, has given some opportunities as well working on short film documentaries with heather Rae and Ben Dupris has offered alot of exposure into the filming industry in which to build a relationship toward creating this documentary which itself shall set big time motion into action for this entire project. 

team leader is a educator, storyteller, performance artist, actor, and community activist/event planner. We have voluntary stake holder members that include accountant/instructor, community members who are instructors as well and legal consultant,  members who are para educators and camp instructors.  In total we have 5 key members that form a board/planning committee. We have tribal volunteers that include instructors and advisors (7 team members). We have tribal and non tribal members who live/work on the reservation and work as volunteer instructors (10), the remainder are non indigenous members and two other tribe members who live off our reservation (10)

speaker at the national level with upcoming TED X talk and authoring two books that will highlight all our efforts toward this production. Performance artist with large festival stage experience and acting including TV and film. Educator with over 20 years experience and a vast world net work to summon support to this teams support and output. 

our team has over two years of volunteer experience at a vast array of levels and expertise. Which basically states we will always have alot to offer in a variety of needs or wants by a generous devoted team. 

UNITY that will never come easy for anyone, specially dealing with indigenous nations as the lead which is very hard to come by. This is probably your one in a million opportunity to support such a group that is focused and supported by such a base honoring diversity, equity and unity. Specially one with experienced educators, environmental and social justice activists, legal council, accountants, teachers, cultural ceremonial leaders, wildnerness educators, authors of Perma culture, and indigenous wellbriety and health living coaches on our team. We have a rare group here that has dedicated themselves to serving the people and offer our camps and skill shares at NO cost. 

We have a valued working relationship with our local tribal schools and some of our team are already teachers and para educators in these schools. We have helped developed school curriculum and offer volunteer hours into schools so we are geared and ready to advance. 

Paschal Sherman Indian School. Nespelem Elementary school, Colville Tribal Boys and Girls Clubs, Lake Roosevelt High School. offer free indigenous cultural education classes, workshops and on site visits to the young warriors sovereignty camp. 

Na'ahillahe fund: is our fiscal sponsor and we help promote their fund raising events and cultural programs.

Friends of the Trees, sun time yurts, Saskatoon life skills camps, fairy congress: offer cultural education and indigenous history and racial relationship building

north central Washington economic alliance, Northwest Native Development fund: offer cultural awareness and diversity workshops to business of North Central Washington and nationally into Indian country. 

Native American Leadership Coalition: stake holder and founding member of national leadership group that promotes health and awareness and resources for the protection from COVID 19 in Indian country. 

Native American fitness council: offering leadership and training for indigenous communities and youth fitness.

Native Wellness Institute: offering assistance in workshops and support 

year one: due to COVID 19 some changes have occurred however this is the outlook to creating revenue for year (1). July/August develop non profit and sustain donations thru economic alliance and fund raising. Continue grant writing for remainder of land project ($5,000). 

TED X talk should be a good promotion for upcoming books currently in the works. Capital toward book will go toward investing into sustainability of the Land Warrior Camp and into  eco tourism marketing and video and promo materials. 

year 2 we expect COVID to be done. marketing campaign will focus toward eco tourism and presentation of leadership and storytelling education. We expect year #2 to be healthy on profit for book sales and educational opportunities into schools/colleges/community events. product line shall increase to include merchandise: shirts, hats, bags misc 

year 2 and 3 eco tourism and land educational workshops at land camp shall be good profit to afford to begin to hire full time or part time staff which will afford opportunity toward growth and productivity. We will have all land projects completed, video completed and find investors/partners toward this documentary

with documentary, and expansion there is limitless directions that may occur at this point so hiring staff into management positions will also become necessary as well moving into LLC  of some aspects of this business may become prudent. 

Our aim is to inspire the world, this documentary will be a key. 

creating partnerships to enhance the best of modern technology and resources and possible trainings. Forming partnerships into this realm woulds be experimental and much unexpected and frankly quite impressive to Indian country. our partnership would inspire the educators and school administrators we serve and promote a dire inspiration to our youth to see how a small community group could gain a partnership with a major technological foundation such as MIT to offer service and productions to improve the education going into our schools, our camps and our communities locally and nation wide. Our relationship and partnership would be ideal for our country to see and to be able to promote the best of the tech world and skills combined with the wisdom and legendary knowledge of our team combined that represent education, culture and diversity would truly be inspiring to our nation as a whole. 

Advanced systems of change rooted in the deep relationship to the land and the values of the First Nations people would really be a key changing point for American as it bridges education advancement to the best both of our worlds have to offer one another to create a modern sense of connection to a system of values our country has long forgotten and struggles with currently. 

We live in a rural environment with substandard wifi/out dated technology and data. We cannot claim to be privy on modern technology advancements. Our youth love it, what they understand however we wish to add value into their time with tech devices and computers, music and TV.  Incorporate values, and information to enhance and promote teachings useful for positive change for our future is our desired goal. So exposure to new models we were not aware of, services, partnerships and products that could really awe our youth and community and inspire them to become more inquisitive and involved into this change. Exposure by creating interesting and intelligent designs of education solutions and products to reach fellow communities that are already at that level of advancement but to offer them something key and important they may not have considered. 

tech support in areas needed, support and instruction on newer technology. 

film and documentary partnership. film editing, script developing, creative writers , ghost writers, editors, production specialist for film and documentary as well funders for film creating and distribution channels, Lighting tech, video editing/graphics tech, music recording engineer.

land camp: funding to complete remaining measure of production and video

marketing/promo: into schools, business leaderships, paid speaking engagements, management of talent, legal advisory for educator, author, film production. taxes, 

schools: will work on several short music videos, developing creative ideas with youth to tell traditional Stories and acting out songs on film as a music video is produced. 

storytelling: will include short video creations, including music, lighting, props, acting, sound engineering and also post production, promotion and delivery into schools, (marketing).

book/blogs: social media campaign to will require bigger base of promotions, marketing, editing, production and sales that require technology and tools and software.

documentary: a production team, to be hired to film a short documentary on the Young Warrior Society Land Warrior Camp. script, writting, marketing editing, promo , post production and sales.