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1. I will spread the word by sharing it on facebook and all the social media. I will try to tell everybody on the rez and i will where my t -shirt from here. I am going to brag about how great it is here.

2. I go to a lot of community gatherings and i will tell all the youth about how beneficial this program is and how fun it is. I will inspire people to come.

1) I will try to show it to the native youth in my tribe, and tell them about this program!

2) I participate in a lot of community activities, so I will have a lot of opportunities to share my experience and other students that attended the 2015 Pipeline Program!

I’m Sad it’s over, but I’m excited for next year.

1. The main thing I can do is sharing it with my brothers. From the I can take it to a larger scale and share it at my school. Im sure the kids would love the book at my school because much of it will relate to their own experiences and culture. Sure it might seem simple to do this, but it really gets difficult to encourage and influence young kids now a days. Nonetheless, I have learned many skills in this pipeline that will help me further commit to sharing this book with others.

2. All the information gained from this program will definitely be passed to all my friends and community. I believe this has been a great experience and other indigenous kids should experience this pipeline. I will personally share this information with other kids because there is nothing better than a face to face conversation. I believe this can be very impactful.

1. The commitment I can make is showing our teacher, she let us do a presentation about Pitzer’s program we have and we got more people to go so we can do that and talk to 2 of the councilors who are into helping kids get to college and graduating. But it’s only for any college in Washington, so I’m going to be doing a year maybe two at home then transfer to a different college, there are so many options. But our teachers at Lummi Nation School are so encouraging and always wanting us to succeed, they will even buy raffles from us :D. But we can show everyone back at home, they have big meetings at our community building for many things, we can go there and talk about it. I really want kids to look into college especially back at home there are a lot of kids who drop out at an early age an I don’t want that to happen to any more of my friends/cousins.

2. I will share the information with kids at our school. Try to encourage them if they would do that, but there are so many kids active with our culture, theres canoe pulling, canoe journey, they keep active so I guess that’s a good thing, but it won’t hurt to try something different.

A way I could give back to my Native community is to spread the word about this program. Give them an opportunity to apply to this amazing program. Where I live, there aren’t a lot of Indigenous people, so whenever I will have a shot to spread the word. That’s the best I can do to help my community.

I had a fun time at Chaffey Community Garden today! For the first time in pipeline, I actually completed a craft from beginning to end. In fact, I finished before everyone else. What’s the craft I was able to finish so quickly and well? Making rabbit fur ropes. I’m a vegetarian and the only thing I’m good at is cutting rabbit skins.

Wow.

Also, I ate these grapes and my lips went numb. More numb than when I usually eat grapes.

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I’m going to distribute Native Youth Survival Guide to Preparing for College to some of my friends. I don’t have any native friends or family members, but the information given in our blogs is helpful to all youth. I think there’s a lot of critical information that we’ve learned in our Common Application and writing classes that can be used to help apply to college. I can send my friends the link so it’s easily accessible to them.

1) I think it would be a smart idea to hand the books out for free to my school. Since the majority of my school have indigenous heritage, it would benefit them greatly!

2) I can share the information by any means necessary. Rather it be by sharing a link of the digital copy and emailing it to every native youth that I know, or sharing and mass-producing a physical copy of the book to every student in my school, or by sharing both copies at community events.

1) To help distribute our book, Native Youth Survival Guide to Preparing for College, I can commit to sharing the information with my community and native youth at my school. I think it will be a great thing to spread in my reservation because many of the students need these guidelines and advice. They need the motivation to finish high school and go to college.

2) I will share this info/book at my school in our Oksale class; oksale means teacher in Lummi language and the class is for native youth. Most likely with a presentation and if possible, hand out copies of the book or give them a link to read it online. I will also encourage them into applying for the pipeline next year by sharing how I like the program and how it has helped me these last 2 years. And by sharing it with the community I can post the information on our community page on Facebook.

Generation Indigenous

My commitment to telling the indigenous youth who are thinking about attending the Pipeline Program or thinking about going to college: I will share at my school first to reach out to my high school about the college summer programs, not only share with my classmates but my National Honor Society, friends, and anyone to who asks questions on what I’ve been involved with. My goal is to get to college, and I’ve motivated myself to make new connections in the Indian community around the world. I’d like to share my experiences and offer those opportunities to help you apply too! As royalty and a senior, I want to be a role model for others and show them the guidance, motivation, and support. I never really looked up to anyone. I pictured myself who I wanted to be, and now I’m proud I’ve come so far. Still long ways to go but I know I’ll get through it.