by Heather Steinberger | Jul 26, 2018 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, Community, Special Events, The Main Youth Center
CRYP will be hosting free vision clinics and children’s tea parties on Monday, July 30 and Tuesday, July 31 at the CRYP campus in Eagle Butte. New Providence, Pennsylvania-based We’re All God’s Children will be conducting both activities. Four of CRYP’s teen interns...
by Heather Steinberger | Jul 5, 2018 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, Special Events
CRYP will host a free youth volleyball camp at the Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) teen center this month. The Wakpa Wasté Volleyball Camp for 7th to 12th graders will take place on Thursday and Friday, July 12-13, with 7th-8th graders playing at 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and...
by Heather Steinberger | Jun 4, 2018 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center
CRYP is offering teen internships in Native Wellness, Native Food Sovereignty (formerly Sustainable Agriculture), Indigenous Foods & Cooking, and Social Enterprise this summer. Twenty-one Lakota teens are already participating, with 13 more starting on June 11....
by Heather Steinberger | May 24, 2018 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, CRYP Hall of Fame
This spring, five Lakota teens have been participating in “Growing Into Wowachinyepi (One Who the People Can Depend On),” a special program we designed in conjunction with the Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute based on its “Champions for Change.”...
by Heather Steinberger | May 17, 2018 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, Community, Waniyetu Wowapi Lakota Arts Institute
On Friday, May 25, the Cheyenne River Youth Project will officially kick off its summer 2018 Midnight Basketball season—and bring its spring Waniyetu Wowapi (Winter Count) Performing Arts Series to a close—with an eagerly anticipated celebration at its Eagle Butte...
by Heather Steinberger | Apr 23, 2018 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center
Earlier this month, the five Lakota teens who are participating in the Cheyenne River Youth Project’s “Growing Into Wowachinyepi” program had the opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. During the three-day trip on Apr. 8-11, the young people learned to articulate...
