The Native American Youth and Family Center has been working since 2007 to build an outdoor classroom, which incorporates a community garden and an Interpretive Native Garden, complete with Chinook language plant markers. This year community members will work on a cob bench with living roof and a Medicine Wheel Garden. This will promote positive connections between our community members and our land, as well as promote our Native American traditional values of environmental stewardship, community service and respect for the Chinook people who once resided on the land where NAYA now is situated.

If you would like to get involved please contact our VBC Site Coordinator or come to a scheduled event!

Schedule

Neerchokikoo Pow Wow May 14th and 15th

Honoring Our Youth, Elders, and Sacred Land.

This event is free and open to the public, dinner served on Saturday evening.

Friday, May 28th:

7pm - Ground Blessing and Grand Entry

Saturday, May 29th:

1pm - Grand Entry

5pm - Dinner and Honoring

7pm - Grand Entry

Tuesday, June 1:

2-6pm - Kickoff Building Party

Wednesday, June 2:

2-6pm - Cob Building and Planting

Thursday, June 3:

2-6pm - Cob Building and Planting

4-6pm - Medicine Wheel Garden Workshop

Friday, June 4:

2-6pm - Cob Building and Planting

7-9pm - Azteca dancers

Saturday, June 5:

9-5pm - Last Day of Building and Planting!

Sunday, June 6:

12-2pm - Potluck Celebration