Carnegie Indian Education and JOM Program

10/01/2026

CHS! ❤️🐾🐾🐾

10/01/2026

Our Carnegie Native American Heritage Club led our school’s Orange Shirt Day event at all 3 Carnegie school sites today- 4 events! They did a great job sharing the meaning behind the national campaign of “Every Child Matters.” Each event ended with the club leading the students in a fun Two-Step cultural dance. Our singers, Brandon Chalepah and Jonah Cole, did an amazing job singing at all 4 events today! More pics coming soon! Thank you Carnegie NAHC!!

10/01/2026

09/24/2026

ORANGE SHIRT DAY IS COMING UP!! 9/30/26
Our Native American Heritage Club has planned a small assembly at each of our school sites for Wednesday, 9/30. We invite all students and staff to join us and wear Orange.



🧡EVERY CHILD MATTERS

🧡In 2013 Phyllis Webstad (Founder of Orange shirt day) shared her experience about her first day at Residential/Boarding school. Her grandmother took her shopping for an outfit, Phyllis chose a shiny orange shirt and she described this shiny shirt as a reflection of her excitement to be starting her first day.

🧡When Phyllis arrived at the school she was immediately stripped of her clothing and was put into a uniform. Phylis never saw that orange shirt again and the color orange reminds her that at six years old she felt like no one cared for her feelings in that institution. Phylis felt worthless and it hurt because no one cared how much the children cried.

🧡Every year on September 30th we wear Orange to honor the survivors, families and those who never made it home from Boarding School.
September was chosen as it is the time of year that children return to school.

🧡 Orange now represents everything that was taken from our relatives: Their families, their homes, their land, their hair, their language, their identity, their confidence, their innocence, their lives and their future.

🧡 Orange represents the importance to acknowledge and keep the conversations alive about these experiences so that it never happens to any child again.

🧡 Phyllis has a children’s book that is a great teaching tool to help children understand why we wear orange.

🧡 For more information on orange shirt day please visit https://www.orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story.html
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09/24/2026

Today we celebrated the awesome achievement of our Middle School Academic Team, the 2026 Caddo County JH Academic Conference CHAMPIONS!! Pizza, pop, ice cream sundaes & custom Tshirts for the Champs! We are so proud of you all! Congratulations Wildcats!!

Freshmen
Claire Clift
Gabi Josey
Grayson Turney
Zayne Christiana

8th Grade
Kato Horse
Machai Matthews
Rocket Dudgeon
Steele Davis

7th Grade
Jaxton Gray
Juliana Ramos
Kohen Marshall
Paxton Perkins

Coach
Mrs. Kori Turney

Asst. Coach
Mrs. Billy Fobes

09/23/2026

I’m so proud of these students! Senior-Adrianna Barco, 8th grader-Kinley Longhat and Sophomore-Kamber Toppah came in after school this week and learned how to make themselves ribbon skirts! The sewing materials and two sewing machines were purchased with funds received from the Carnegie Wildcat Education Endowment Funds. This grant supports our Indian Education program’s “Sewing our Story” project and we appreciate it so much! I look forward to helping the next group of students willing to learn the basics of sewing traditional native attire. The creativity our students possess is amazing! I’ll post pictures as each project is completed. Great job young ladies!!
🐾❤️🐾Mrs. Hope
Dondi Toppah Kristi Longhat Kendra Longhat Lynn Ann Dietrich Christi Harrison

09/22/2026

Congratulations to our 2026-2027 Native American Heritage Club Officers, Club Princesses and Club Braves for JH and HS. 🐾❤️🐾

09/18/2026

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06/09/2026

More Great News!! 🐾🐾🐾❤️🐾🐾🐾

We are excited to announce that all required classroom supplies will once again be provided for the upcoming 2026-2027 School Year. Families will be responsible for the purchase of backpacks. Don't forget school starts August 6th, 2026.