CNAY Creative Native

Digital artwork. My original design for submission in Center for Native American Youth's 2023 Creative Native art contest, based on the prompt "Community and Home".

“I am from the spawning ground

It’s the one that we all know

At one time or another

We all swam from the same hole …”

Written by our local elder Brian D. Tripp, these words all of us can feel in our chest, in our souls. These days many young people will leave our homelands to go to college, start a career, grow. But we stay connected regardless of obstacles, time, or distance. Like the salmon, with the salmon, because of the salmon… we always return home. To the mountains, the river, the creeks, out families… the spawning ground."