Konaway

Konaway Nika Tillicum Native Youth Academy: Enacting a Medicine Wheel Educational Framework

In this paper, we first share an ethnographic study including participant observations and interviews with five Konaway Nika Tillicum Native Youth Academy (KNT) staff to investigate how the educators of KNT enact the Medicine Wheel in designing educational experiences for Native youth. We then examined the effectiveness of this Medicine Wheel framework on positive development factors across two summers of the academy with youth ages 11–18 (23 boys, 38 girls) representing diverse tribal affiliations. 

Citation

Ellington, T., Tehee, M., Litts, B. K., & West, D. (2024). Konaway Nika Tillicum Native Youth Academy:Enacting a medicine wheel educational framework.. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000715