Volunteer with CRYP This Year!
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CRYP is actively seeking volunteers to work in our Cokata Wiconi teen center and The Main youth center.
If you are interested in applying for our volunteer program, please visit our website and click on the volunteer link for more information.
You also can read our recent article about our volunteer program here.
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| Sponsor Enrichment Activities for CRYP Youth
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The Main youth center and Cokata Wiconi teen center are looking for sponsors to support art and athletic enrichment activities for our after-school and summer programs.
We are actively looking for people willing to make monetary or in-kind donations to fulfill these needs. You can donate online by clicking the link below or by mailing donations to the Cheyenne River Youth Project, P.O. Box 410, Eagle Butte, SD 57625.
If you'd like to see a Needs List for our enrichment programs, please contact us at (605) 964-8200 or send us an email at lakotayouth@gmail.com.
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Sponsor a Birthday Cake at The Main!
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Few days in a child's life are as precious as his or her birthday. Unfortunately, for far too many underprivileged children, that day passes with little celebration - if any at all. CRYP wants to make sure that the young children who attend The Main youth center have the birthday festivities they deserve.
Each month, The Main hosts a birthday party for the children whose birthdays fall during that month. To offset the cost of each party, CRYP seeks monthly sponsors to contribute $40 for the birthday cake. Please consider sponsoring a birthday cake this year! Every dollar makes such a difference in the lives of Cheyenne River's children.
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Meet Our
Board of Directors
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PRESIDENT
Jeremy Patterson
VICE PRESIDENT
Karla Abbott
SECRETARY/TREASURER
Jeffrey Meyer
DIRECTORS
Guthrie Ducheneaux
Peggy Gallipo
Lonnie Heier
For more info and bios, click
here!
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Support CRYP When You Shop Online!
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What if CRYP earned a donation every time you searched the Internet? Or, what if a percentage of every online purchase you made supported our cause?
Amazon, for example, will donate 0.5% of your purchase price to CRYP when you shop at smile.amazon.com. To make shopping even easier, you can add the AmazonSmile 1 Button to your web browser.
Then there are GoodSearch and GoodShop.
GoodSearch.com is a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up.
GoodShop.com is an online shopping mall that donates up to 30% of each purchase to your favorite cause. Hundreds of great stores have teamed up with GoodShop so that every time you place an order, you'll be supporting your favorite cause.
And, if you download the
"GoodSearch - Cheyenne River Youth Project - CRYP toolbar," our cause will earn money every time you shop and search online EVEN if you forget to go to the GoodShop or GoodSearch sites first! Click here to add the toolbar.
While you're online, you even can make a secure donation with your Capital One credit card. Simply click here. You even can add an easy-to-use widget for future contributions.
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| Needs List |
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CRYP relies on in-kind donations as well as funding to continue our mission. If you'd like to help, please check out our
Needs List. You also may contact us at (605) 964-8200 if you'd like a copy of our most up-to-date list and price quotes for particular needs. Thank you for your support!
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| Our Mission |
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The Cheyenne River Youth Project is dedicated to providing the youth of the Cheyenne River reservation with access to a vibrant and secure future through a variety of culturally sensitive and enduring programs, projects and facilities, ensuring strong, self-sufficient families and communities.
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ONLY SIX WEEKS REMAIN:
Help Us Reach our Fundraising Goal for This Year's RedCan Graffiti Jam!
The third annual
RedCan graffiti jam is rapidly approaching, and the Cheyenne River Youth Project® has launched a dedicated fundraiser to support its three-day arts festival. CRYP seeks to raise $10,000 in the next six weeks.
Scheduled for June 29-July 1, RedCan will showcase 11 headline artists from seven states and Switzerland, more than half of whom have indigenous heritage, including Taino, Hawaiian, O'odham, Yacqui, Cherokee and Lakota. It also will incorporate traditional dancers, native drum groups, and a musical lineup featuring Ojibwe rapper TallPaul and Lakota hip-hop artists Dakota South.
What's more, CRYP's teen arts interns will host an exhibition of their work in the Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) teen center, and youth of all ages will have a chance to attend arts workshops through the First Peoples' Funds Rolling Rez Arts bus and to paint alongside their heroes in the free, public Waniyetu Wowapi (Winter Count) Art Park.
RedCan remains Indian Country's first and only graffiti jam, and it is the signature event for CRYP's Waniyetu Wowapi Lakota Arts Institute. RedCan gives Cheyenne River's young people, and the community at large, an unparalleled opportunity to experience the contemporary graffiti art movement, learn about different techniques and styles, paint alongside master artists, and explore their own unique voices and identities as they share their stories through the visual arts.
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CRYP Hosts Rolling Rez Arts
Last month, CRYP welcomed the First Peoples Funds' Rolling Rez Arts mobile unit to the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation. Visiting artist Wade Patton and First Peoples Fund Coordinator Bryan Parker spent three evenings with the nonprofit youth organization's teen arts interns, providing valuable instruction in multiple mediums.
On the first evening, the interns cut up pages from a ledger book, constructed a collage and then either painted or used pastels to create unique visuals incorporating the ledger paper. On the second and third evenings, the instructors gave the interns the choice: to work with pastels to create original artwork, or to finish their ledger projects. They encouraged the young people to use any type of medium they liked, from acrylic paints and pastels to markers and colored pencils. Many interns chose to complete both types of projects (learn more about their experience
here).
Rolling Rez Arts made its first appearance on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in fall 2015. Its mission is to deliver art, business, retail and banking services that, until now, have been inaccessible to many of the artists and culture bearers who live and work in these remote reservation areas.
CRYP will welcome Rolling Rez Arts back to its Eagle Butte campus in late June for the third annual
RedCan graffiti jam, which is scheduled for June 29-July 1 this year.
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Arts Interns Complete "Architectural Drawing and Design" with Pyatt Studio
In late April, CRYP welcomed Boulder, Colorado-based Pyatt Studio to its Eagle Butte campus for a three-day, intensive "Introduction to Architecture & Design" workshop. Rob Pyatt, principal and design director, and fellow designer Walt Pourier spent three days with 13 teen art interns who currently are pursuing their arts education through CRYP's Waniyetu Wowapi (Winter Count) Lakota Arts Institute.
The intensive workshop familiarized the interns with architectural and design thinking, and it provided critical instruction in a variety of representational tools and media, including freehand drawing and basic model-making techniques. All interns received an official Certificate of Completion from Pyatt Studio and CRYP.
During their three days with Pyatt and Pourier, the interns developed local, relevant and personally meaningful design projects, and they explored aspects of architecture and design that aligned with their individual interests. They also learned about design research, communicating design ideas through drawing, testing designs through physical models, working collaboratively and sharing their design ideas with others.
"We were all inspired by Pyatt Studio's vision-designing for people and place," said Julie Garreau, CRYP's executive director. "It was wonderful to see how our teen art interns were touched by it, too. They said they all want the instructors to come back, and they admitted that they enjoyed being motivated this way."
Learn more about the workshop, and about some of the interns' personal experiences,
here!
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Teen interns Jaymalee and Jordan Turning Heart at the summit of Bear Butte this spring.
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Teen Internship Program Encourages Lifelong Wellness Practices
For nearly 30 years, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® has been dedicated to building and nurturing healthy children through its innovative, resourceful youth programs. The launch of CRYP'S teen internship program at the Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) teen center nearly three years ago took this vision to the next level.
Not only does CRYP offer teen wellness internships, it has designed wellness-oriented activities for all four cohorts, allowing the teen interns in the arts, social enterprise and sustainable agriculture to participate as well.
In the last four weeks, for example, CRYP has hosted Native Wellness training and physical assessments, comprehensive empowerment and team-building exercises, and cooking classes.
During their internships, the teens take part in a variety of sporting activities and fitness challenges, and they can earn special trips to sites of cultural and spiritual significance, like Black Elk Peak and Bear Butte
(pictured above). Through it all, they strengthen their connection to Lakota values, traditions and life ways.
Learn more about CRYP's wellness initiatives
here.
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May Hall of Fame:
Sunni Dupris
At the Cheyenne River Youth Project, we've worked hard over the years to develop a programming mix that allows us to reach as many young people as we can, and then develop deeper, more meaningful relationships with particular individuals over time. For example, we created Midnight Basketball in 1996 so area teens would have a safe place to play ball and hang out with friends on Friday nights-some weekends, we'll see more than 100 kids come through our doors.
We might not have the chance to get to know each of those 100-plus children personally through the basketball program. Sometimes, however, a passion for basketball turns into a passion for CRYP, and we have an opportunity to make a lasting difference in that child's life.
That's what happened with a young woman named Sunni Dupris, who first came to our Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) teen center to play basketball.
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Order "Home: Cheyenne River Lakota Nation" and Support CRYP!
One hundred percent of the proceeds from book sales benefit the nonprofit Cheyenne River Youth Project.
For more details about the project, and to order fine-art prints (100% of proceeds also benefit CRYP), visit cheyenneriverfineart.com and click "Photography."
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Thank you so much for your interest in our youth project, and for your ongoing support as we pursue our mission in the community.
To learn more about the Cheyenne River Youth Project and its programs, and for information about making donations and volunteering, call (605) 964-8200 or visit
Sincerely,
All of us at the
Cheyenne River Youth Project
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