Now that summer is in full swing, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® has announced an exciting roster of wellness events for the month of July. These run the gamut, from sports camps and clinics, to the ever-popular Midnight Basketball and Junior Midnight Basketball...
News & Updates
Programs Support Local Families, Courtesy of Running Strong for American Indian Youth Grants
CRYP Family Services Provides Valuable Heat Assistance & Home Improvement Programs As the 2011-12 fiscal year drew to a close on June 30, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, announced that it was able to provide many local families with...
CRYP Will Host Third Annual Family Day Festivities on Thursday, July 5
On Thursday, July 5, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® in Eagle Butte will host its third annual Family Day festival at its East Lincoln Street Campus. The event will be held from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the grounds and in the Cokata Wiconi Teen Center gymnasium, and...
CRYP Names New Board of Directors for 2012-13 Fiscal Year
On Saturday, June 8, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® held its annual end-of-fiscal-year board meeting at its East Lincoln Street campus in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. Not only was it a rare opportunity for all board members to visit with CRYP staff in person and hear...
CRYP Releases 13-minute Video Produced by Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous People
Thanks to the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous People, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® has recorded and released a 13-minute video that tells the story of this unique, not-for-profit, nearly 25-year-old youth organization. Production took place in May, with a...
June Events Include International Night, Midnight Basketball and Concert
Summer is in full swing at the Cheyenne River Youth Project® in Eagle Butte, and staff and volunteers are hard at work preparing a variety of special events as well as the regularly scheduled youth and teen center programming. In the next 10 days, for example,...
Respected Elder and Longtime CRYP Volunteer Romey Garreau Turns 75 Years Old
On Friday, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® in Eagle Butte will be honoring one of its longtime volunteers: Romey Garreau, a respected community elder who will celebrate his 75th birthday on June 15. Garreau has been volunteering with the nearly 25-year-old,...
Local Dairy Queen “Sweet Tooth for Youth” Fundraiser Raises $1,750 for the Cheyenne River Youth Project
Funding Will Offset Summer Utility Costs & Help Meet Youth Programming Needs The numbers are in, and they’re exciting: Not only did the annual Dairy Queen “Sweet Tooth for Youth” Fundraiser bring in $1,750 to support the nearly 25-year-old, not-for-profit Cheyenne...
CRYP to Host Running Strong for American Indian Youth® Summer Youth Feeding Program
CRYP is Serving Meals at 4:30-6:30 p.m. Monday Through Friday at Cokata Wiconi problems with remaining solvent On the 2.8-million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in remote north-central South Dakota, many children rely on their schools’ breakfast and lunch...
Teen Leaders Travel to Washington, DC for Five Days of Meetings, Attractions and Fun
American writer and painter Henry Miller once noted, “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” On May 22-27, six “Power of Four” teen leaders from the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation learned this first-hand as they left their north-central...