About 14 youth leaders from the Tulalip Tribes recently participated in a UNITY training in Tulalip, Washington. The training, to develop a youth council constitution and bylaws, took place after the newly elected officers of the Tulalip Sr. and Jr. Youth Councils were sworn in before the Tulalip Tribal Council. The Tulalip Youth Council spent an entire day doing team-building exercises and drafting an entire constitution and bylaws. The training was conducted by UNITY Wellness Warrior’s Program Coordinator Josh Tso, Navajo, UNITY’s Executive Director Mary Kim Titla, San Carlos Apache, and Hamilton Seymour, Nooksack/Stz’uminus First Nation, who served as a peer leader. Read More

UNITY welcomes the newly formed San Diego Inter-tribal Youth Council! They became a UNITY affiliate in September 2017. The group is sponsored by the San Diego American Indian Health Center. Youth members and advisors are pretty pumped about the 2018 National #UNITY Conference to be held in San Diego next July. Read More

National UNITY Council Co-Presidents, Hamilton Seymour and Sophie Tiger, address tribal leadership at the annual National Congress of American Indians convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The Co-Presidents of the National UNITY Council, Sophie Tiger, Comanche/Standing Rock Sioux, and Hamilton Seymour, Nooksack and Stz’uminus First Nation, addressed tribal leaders during a general assembly at the National Congress of American Indians convention held recently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They explained UNITY’s mission and promoted UNITY’s year-round youth programs including the Earth Ambassadors, 25 Under 25, the Wellness Warriors and upcoming conferences. Seymour also thanked NCAI President Brian Cladoosby for his leadership and support of Native youth over the last two years. Cladoosby, Chairman of the Swinomish Tribe, ended his second term as NCAI President at the convention. Read More

About a dozen Native youth in Nevada recently made a commitment to create youth councils in their communities. The commitment took place at the Nevada Department of Education’s 10th Annual American Indian/Alaska Native Education Summit held last month at the University of Nevada (UNR) in Reno, Nevada. Currently, there are no UNITY affiliated youth councils in Nevada, which is home to 27 tribal communities.
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