PAST YOUTH SUMMITS
2022 Tribal Youth Water Summit
2022 Youth Summit Participants pulling in a tribal canoe at Fern Ridge Lake near Eugene, Oregon
University and College Participants:
Keyen Singer (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation), Spencer Delos Walton (Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians), Eliza Patricia Porter (Yakama Nation), Angela Noah (White Mountain Apache), Megan VanPelt (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation), and Roman Alcantar (Huachichitl Mexican indigenous), and Chrissa Wilkie (Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Klamath Tribes), & Audrey Saing (Cambodian).
High School Participants:
Bilįį’binełį Miles Blackhorn (Navajo and Northern Cheyenne), Cilxusasqet Samuel Friedlander Jr. (Confederated Colville Tribes and Athabascan), Ashlynn Haelie Emanoff (Tlingit and Unangax (Aleut), & Abigail W Whitman (Nez Perce Tribe)
2021 Tribal Youth Water Summit - Hybrid Event
Participants: JJ Lowley (Couer d'Alene Tribe), Zoe Leilani Gifford (Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians), Eileen Joyce Gonzales (Hualapai Tribe), Mia Cristin Walker (Seminole Nation Of Oklahoma), Amber Erica Begay (Navajo Nation), Elias Jon Strasman (Coquille Indian Tribe), Ryan Andresen (Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siulsaw Indians), Annika Jae Strasman (Coquille Indian Tribe), Loke Kaho'opomaika'i Yokoyama (Native Hawaiian), Kaikanim Stanislaus Mercier (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), Adam Langley (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), Kaliko Nainoa Yokoyama (Native Hawaiian),Ashlynn Haelie Emanoff (Sitka Tribe of Alaska (Tlingit and Aleut)), Presley Grayce Orcutt (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk, and Yakama), Raquel Ayla Chaney (Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians), Kyella Picard (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation), Emily Rose Charles (Affiliated with the Calista Corporation), Nakoa Byron Allen Mercier (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), Hunter Silver-Ky (Seabird Island Band - Stó:lō), Domonique Smith (Yurok Tribe), Wakara Winter Scott (Yurok Tribe), Jakob Holmes (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), Violet Johnson (Hoopa/Yurok), & Kale'a Calica-Younker (Coquille/Warm Springs/Yakama)
2020 Tribal Youth Water Summit - Virtual
2020 Tribal Youth Summit Participants:
Tia Butler (Siletz Tribes), Moya Maeko Moses (Nez Perce), Savana lia Semallie (Navajo/Samoan), Jacelyn Jordan Lowley (Coeur d’Alene Tribe/Nez Perce/Colville), Kailiyah Krehbiel (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), Ryan Andresen (Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw), Mia Walker (Seminole/Creek), Keyen Singer (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation), Jaslyn Kay Young (Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians), Maritza Martinez-Matt (Coeur d’Alene Tribe), Shaileen Gonzales (Hualapai Tribe), Alexis Lewis (Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation), Angelina Woods (Makah Tribe), Eileen Gonzales (Hualapai Tribe), Leya Descombes (Native Village of Barrow), Wyatt Avery Davis (Chinook/Snohomish), & Gwendolyn Skye Andreasen VanOtten (Non-affiliated Native)
Mentors:
Estrella Soto (Apache/Yaqui), Audie Davis (Chinook/Snohomish), & Serina Fast Horse (Sicangu Lakota & Amskapi Piikuni (Blackfeet)
2019 Tribal Youth Water Summit - Residency
2019 Tribal Youth Summit Participants: Megan VanPelt (Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation), Julia HighEagle (Chehalis/Nez Perce), Calista Foster (Nisqually), Wocus Gibbon (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde/Chinook/Klamath), Anona Francis (Umatilla/Warm Springs) - Estrella Soto (Apache/Yaqui), Kailani Sirois (Confederated Colville Tribes/Okakagan/Methow/Wenatchi/Plains Cree), Raquel Helms (Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umqupa and Siuslaw), Liliana Bugarin (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs), Coby HighEagle (Chehalis/Nez Perce), Tyler Buck (Warm Springs/Wanapum), Audie Davis (Chinook/Snohomish), & Syrille Jone (Tulalip Tribes )
Mentors: Kale’a Calica-Younker (Coquille Indian Tribe/Warm Springs/Wasco/Yakama/Tulalip/Snoqualamie), Larae Ellenwood (Blackfeet/Nez Perce), Jessica Douglas (Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians), & Kezia Setyawan - Michaela Madrid (Lower Brule Lakota Sioux Tribe)