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Wolakota Youth Council
Wakan Wahopi Win Zephier, Vice-President Waste Win Gonzalez, Secretary Gabby Rudabaga, Board member Binaishee Quaynce Bellanger, Board member Youth Advisors and Coordinators: Shane Bastien and Lauren Muscoplat Adult Coordinators: Raymond Wissiup II and Paula Parker Naziel
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Wolakota Youth Council is a grassroots organization of Native Youth working together to protect our planet and our future. Through the initiative of the Prayer Run for World Peace, the youth have translated their concern into action by sharing alternative living resources, forming a global community to change how we live, and challenging the limited mainstream definition of environmental issues. The Wolakota Youth Council is working to create change on both local and global levels, by showing visibly the effort of runing with prayers of concern for all life to have a better future. We've been divided and conquered for 500+ years. The greatest enemy has become ourselves. We have to be a new kind of warrior, and battle with our hearts and minds. There are many obstacles today, pollution, diseases, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, racism, and an unending cycle of massacres and wars. If we don't take action or speak from our hearts, the consequences will be drastic: no future for our young brothers and sisters, or for seven generations to come. So we must remember the sacred teachings of our ancestors, that we are all one.
The Wolakota Youth Council's Prayer Run for World Peace is a powerful movement working towards change through education, positive social structure and challenging our minds, bodies and spirit. Although environmental destruction grows and injustice thrives on a global scale, these problems are finding their match through the energy of our youth willing to fight for their future. Directing this energy, organizing those eager to empower this generation to secure a healthy planet today and tomorrow- these are the ambitious, but essential, goals to which the Wolakota Youth Council aspires. |