S MOKE S IGNALS
APRIL 15, 2017
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True Gibbons blocks Wynter LaChance from getting the double ball while playing a game during Native Youth Wellness Day held in the Tribal gym on Friday,
April 7. About 130 Native youth, which included youth from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, Burns
Paiute Tribe and Chemawa Indian School in Salem, attended the event.
Native Youth Wellness Day
From left, Kaleigha Simi, Isabelle Grout, Camas Lily Gibbons, Sophia
Morningstar Stewart and Wocus Gibbons practice a Māori song during an
icebreaker exercise during Native Youth Wellness Day.
Iyana Holmes, middle, signs an autograph as singer Meghan
Trainor after being pulled from the audience as part of a
hypnotism show during Native Youth Wellness Day held in
the Tribal gym on Friday, April 7. Elizabeth Watson-Croy,
right, and Grave Gibbons, in the background reacting to
meeting Trainor, volunteered to be hypnotized during the
event and under hypnotism they were told that their favorite
celebrity was in the audience and to bring them in front of
everyone. Both Watson-Croy's and Gibbons' favorite celebrity
is Trainor and they both thought Holmes really was her.
Photos by Michelle Alaimo
Grave Gibbons makes a bracelet
during Native Youth Wellness Day
on Friday, April 7. Each youth made
a bracelet that they were supposed
to leave in a random place as a gift
for someone to fi nd. The exercise taught random acts of
kindness, generosity, gifting and creativity.