by Heather Steinberger | Nov 23, 2015 | Christmas Toy Drive, Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, Community, Fundraisers, Special Events, The Main Youth Center
The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us, which means the Cheyenne River Youth Project® has just one month left to fulfill the Christmas wishes of 1,500 children on South Dakota’s remote, 2.8-million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. More than 1,000 letters have...
by Heather Steinberger | Nov 16, 2015 | Community, Special Events
On Saturday, November 21, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® will do more than host its 5th annual Holiday Artists’ Market. It will unveil its first-ever Festival of Trees, and Cheyenne River community members may purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win one of five...
by Heather Steinberger | Nov 12, 2015 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center
For the past 25 years, Diabetes Action Research and Education has made it a priority to help reduce the extremely high incidence of diabetes in native communities, especially in South Dakota. In 1993, Diabetes Action helped fund construction of the first Indian-owned...
by Heather Steinberger | Nov 12, 2015 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, CRYP Hall of Fame
Nathanial Fast Wolf, 14, is a member of CRYP’s second cohort of Waniyetu Wowapi (“Winter Count”) Art Interns. He also served as a Sustainable Agriculture Intern in 2014, spending the summer in the Winyan Toka Win (“Leading Lady”) organic garden, and he’s a regular...
by Heather Steinberger | Nov 11, 2015 | Waniyetu Wowapi Lakota Arts Institute
It’s been a huge week for the Cheyenne River Youth Project®, which has served children and families on South Dakota’s remote 2.8-million-acre Cheyenne River reservation for 27 years. The not-for-profit, grassroots youth organization has won the Bush Foundation’s 2015...
