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Read our Newsletter and learn whats happening with Wisdom of the Elders Wisdom E-Newsletter Sign upThe Name of The Wisdom Project is now “Discovering Yidong Xinag”
In honor of Rose High Bear's Deg Hit’an Dine heritage, The Wisdom Project is now called Discovering Yidong Xinag. Yidong Xinag in the Alaskan Athabascan dialect means “the old wisdom.” This fits our Native American youth leadership initiative very well. This project...
Meet Wisdom’s Native Peer Mentors In April, Wisdom of the Elders recruited four Native American youth to serve as peer mentors for Discovering Yidong Xinag (The Old Wisdom in the Athabascan language), formerly known as The Wisdom Project. This Native American youth...
Northwest Indian Storytellers Association Annual Retreat Wisdom held its annual Northwest Indian Storytelling Association Retreat the weekend of May 16-18 outside of Olympia, Washington. Five elder tribal storytellers and 18 emerging tellers joined us this year at a...
Discovering Our Story Television Program Discovering Our Story TV broadcasts LIVE on the first Sunday of every month, at 1:00 pm on Comcast Ch.11 in the Portland Metro Area. Our program which aired Sunday June 1st featured members of our volunteer crew, CarlaDean...
Saturday Science Academies – Promoting Science Education for Native Youth
What did you do last Saturday? Over fifteen Native students and parents took part in Wisdom’s first Native Saturday Science Academies for two days of hands-on learning and fun with crawly creatures and wading through Butler Creek. In partnership with Northwest Indian...
Summer Field Science Camps
Our curriculum team traveled to Johnson Creek last week for a site visit to prepare for July’s Summer Field Science Camp. Wisdom's Amanda Kelley Lopez, Georgia Hart and Rose High Bear met with Matt Clark, Executive Director of the Johnson Creek Watershed Council, and...
Wisdom Gardens Guidelines
Wisdom Gardens is a communal garden in which Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. provides free space and plant starts for families and individuals that self-identify as Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander, or other indigenous peoples of North,...
An Evening with Wisdom Update
Last year, we celebrated "An Evening with Wisdom of the Elders" with 150 friends on Summer Solstice. It was a wonderful evening with outstanding art, cultural items, getaways and other items auctioned off. We also gave away 150 heirloom tomato plants that went home...
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Wisdom Gardens is Open!
Spring is here... Time to go outside and start getting our hands dirty! Wisdom Gardens’ season opening is this Sunday, April 27, 2014. Registered gardeners are welcome from 9 AM to Sunset through the spring and summer.To kick off our opening Wisdom invites you to...