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NARP Programs & Events
Buffalo Public Schools will be observing ORANGE Shirt Day on September 29th in honor and remembrance of the thousands of Indigenous children who were sent to residential schools, for those who never returned, and for those whose lives were forever changed.
Wear orange and send your pictures to: BPSWEBMASTER@BUFFALOSCHOOLS.ORG (by October 5th) to be featured in our BPS homepage slideshow.
Orange Shirt Day
September 30 and will be observed in BPS on September 29.
Native American Night at #19
September 29, 2023 - 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Native American Night
at BPS Native American Magnet School #19
97 West Delavan Ave.
Join us for a night of dancing, demonstrations, language games, crafts, and frybread as we celebrate Native American Day and honor a community affected by the residential schools.
Native American Social
March 1, 2024
City Honors School 186 E North St. Buffalo, NY 14204
Come join us for food, singing, and dancing!
Co-sponsored by: Native American Resource Program and Native American Community Services (with funding provided by the USDHHS--ACF Administration for Native Americans)
Contact: Bruce Wallace
email: btwallace@buffaloschools.org
phone: 716-816-3183
Rock Your Mocs
November 30, 2023
Established 2011, Rock Your Mocs, is best described as a worldwide Native American & Indigenous Peoples virtual unity event held annually and during November National Native American Heritage Month in the U.S.A. During the Rock Your Mocs, people wear their moccasins, take a photo, create a video or story, add the hashtag #ROCKYOURMOCS
Door Decorating Contest
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, we would like to invite you to decorate your doors showing off Indigenous leaders. Using the attached rubric, each school is invited to select a door for submission to the districtwide contest. Please feel free to modify the rubric to meet your specific building ’s needs. A panel of judges will select the winning entry to be featured in the Native American Resource Program newsletter and on the district website. Please see participation guidelines below.
Contact: Bruce Wallace btwallace@buffaloschools.org 716-816-3184
Nekanęhsakt - 10thAnniversary
Native American Social
Please join us for corn soup, fry bread, singing & dancing, door prizes, storytelling, vender tables, lacrosse demonstration & a celebration of 10 years of the friends of Ękwehęwę.
Doors open at 5:30 pm. Parking & entrance on north side of building. Co-sponsored by Buffalo Public Schools' Native American Resource Program, & Native American Community Services, with funding provided by the USDHHS-ACF-Administration for Native Americans.
Date:
April 19, 2024
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location:
McKinley High School
1500 Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14207
