June 15, 2020

For Healthier Native Youth, Look To Their Strengths

Author: Jessica Bylander

Abstract
The Zuni Youth Enrichment Project provides a model for improving the health of American Indian youth by focusing on their culture and strengths.
Beside the dried-up bed of the Zuni River, a bright green athletic field surrounded by spiky coyote fencing stands out among the white and red rocks and dry grasses of the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico. The turf field belongs to the Ho’n A:wan Community Park (the name means “belonging to all of us”). This 2.5-acre park was designed in collaboration