"The Horizons Project" / Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation

Unpaid

Posted by Mark Tirpak - MSCRP 06?

I completed an internship with the Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation during the Spring & Summer of 2005. Through the internship, I helped the Club build its volunteer and fundraising community and capacity. I also helped the Club explore more critically its relationship with various organizations that utilize the Club and community as a service project site.

Through the internship, I launched the Horizons Project and traveled with Northern Cheyenne youth cross-country (Montana to Boston and back by van), visiting heritage sites and colleges with strong American Indian recruiting and student support strategies. In addition, we completed service projects in some of the communities we visited - often with organizations and/or student groups that have done service work in Lame Deer in the past (but not always in partnership with local youth).

The US-based portion of the program dovetailed with an international exchange trip to the UK. The 2005 Horizons program suffered from an ambitious itinerary, vehicle problems, and limited drivers / program facilitators.

While plans for a similar 2006 summer program were cancelled, the long-term objective of the Horizons project - helping Northern Cheyenne youth develop lifelong learning, entrepreneurship, and project planning and management skills while increasing their participation in sustainable community development - are still being realized.

The Club would definitely welcome more interns from the CRP program! For details, please feel free to contact me or Emma Harris - by email or phone at (406) 477-6654 x102

Community Development, Youth Development, Sustainable Development, Service-Learning

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Lame Deer

Rosebud

101 Cheyenne Ave / mt-39

Some of the Horizons participants and me grabbing a meal - at the start of the long road to Boston!

Bear Butte, SD - one of the first heritage stops of the 2005 program . . .

Crazyhorse Memorial, SD - We stopped here for a visit before traveling to Pine Ridge . . .

Volunteering in St. Cloud, MN, with Kids Against Hunger (www.feedingchildren.org), after visiting St. Cloud State University . . .

On the road in our trusty van, Roxanne - as in, "you don't have to put on the red [check engine] light . . . "

Emma (Northern Cheyenne) discovering some "indians" in Pennsylvania . . .

Our last service project - with The Lewisburg Prison Project (http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~mligare/LPP.html), after visiting Penn State University and Carlisle Indian School and before traveling to DC, NY, & Boston to see the sites . . .

Visiting the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.

Visiting the WTC site in NYC.

UTSOA-CRP Completed Internships

from www.crpshare.org

This map explores the internships that students of the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Community & Regional Planning Program have completed.

The data here is provided by CRP students - past and present. To contribute, create/login to your CommunityWalk account.

If you need help figuring out how to make or edit a map marker - including how to include web and email links in the description, visit the CRPSHARE Instructables Group

This map was launched by Mark Tirpak, MSCRP Candidate - September, 2006