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Saydele Haynes

I really enjoy encouraging others to pursue their dreams and ambitions! I really believe in fighting for what you believe in, no one can tell you that you can’t do something! Keep pushing and going till you achieve what you’ve set your mind to! Over the last Couple of years…
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Halona Benjamin

I used to be the one who would sit in the back of the room & cling to my Mom. After being bullied in school I didn’t think I or my voice mattered or that I was beautiful. It was only when I attended the NCNAYO (North Carolina Native American…
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Lacey Bowles

I don’t look like a native. So when I tell people I am Cherokee they act surprised. There were alot of people around me that were negative about it. They would wonder why the culture was important to me if i was “barely” Indian. It was starting to get to…
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Lexine Salazar

The most revolutionary week of my life, the days I grew the most, was at Standing Rock. I had the chance to watch the grandmothers laugh together, the babies run and play around their tipis, and all of our men sing together at the sacred fire. I felt so proud…
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We R Quileute

Thousands of winters before the arrival of the White Drifting-House people (ho-kwats), the Quileute Indians and the ghosts of their ancestors lived and hunted here. For as long as the ageless memory of legend recalls, the Quileutes flourished in the territory which originally stretched from their isle-strewn Pacific beaches along…
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