NABARI Youth Decolonization Camp is a free, 7-day/6-night, summer camp experience for Bay Area Native and Indigenous youth (high school-aged). NABARI is focused on exploring Native + Indigenous youth identity, and the relationships between self- and community empowerment.
Across the week, campers can expect to spend the day learning about various actions in social justice movements, including creating communities, speaking about social change, and planning collective actions. In the evenings, campers will explore various methods of cultural identity, including the practice of incorporating identity into their activism and diving into a variety of self- and community-healing practices.
Across the week, campers will interact with Indigenous professionals (including Medicine, Science, Law, etc…) and have a chance to identify/connect with potential mentors to last beyond their camp experience. Finally, campers will also be given a special session on the navigation of higher education systems and college application/preparation and will be provided a tool kit with information on scholarships and resources to help them succeed.
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NABARI was developed and will be supported by members of the Native American Health Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
The Four Directions of NABARI
Community
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Come meet other Native American and Indigenous youth activists from around the Bay Area.
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Spend the daytime learning with one another on ways we build collective movements of change, then unwind in the evenings and spend social time amongst new friends.
Culture
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This camp is geared toward supporting Youth with a wide range of cultural connections to their Native American / Indigenous ancestry (sometimes referred to as a “reconnection journey”).
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Whether you have never been to the rez or if you visit family there often, we hope you will leave this camp with added cultural connections.
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Learn about different forms of activism, and how community organizing and strong collaborative networks can create movements that make impactful change.
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Gain valuable practice utilizing different principles of advocacy and finding your strengths and areas of growth in the ecosystem of social change.
Advocacy
Wellness
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Utilizing lessons from the Native American Medicine Wheel we incorporate four aspects into our model for wellness that we teach campers to amplify in their lives:
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Physical
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Mental
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Purposeful
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Spiritual (not religious, but rather a sense of connection to all things)
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