Dreamstarter 2022 Alfredo

11/08/2024

Support our Navajo elders. It is a virtual Rug Show starting today!

09/09/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjrNr6GQETk
Constitution Day event in 2022

A video celebrating Constitution Day 2022 featuring students of Larsen Elementary, Utah State Bar President Kristin Woods, Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice M...

06/16/2023

West Mountain Prayer Run!

04/20/2023

AJ Quintana and Nebo Indian Education program will be hosting Brian Young to talk about his book "Healer of the Water Monster" on April 26 at 4pm in Springville, Cherry Creek Elementary. I have attached the flyer. I would like to invite your families to this event if they want to join us in the auditorium that evening. We hope to see you!

03/22/2023

https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/news/student-spotlight-alfredo-quintana

Mother Earth and Father Sky created by air, wind, water, sun and land.

Where I go sacred elements surround and protect me from birth to death.

Tribal teachings, natural surroundings and wildlife guide and mold me.

Salt offerings were given by my family when I vocalized my first laugh.

As a child, I was taught to race the sun before dawn,

Teaching discipline and reverence for the order in our constellation.

I bathed in cold streams to purify and wake -up my senses to face another day.

I celebrated my rite of passage into manhood, within a sweat-lodge when my voice changed.

Each winter with the first snowfall, I welcomed and gave thanks for

much needed moisture with a traditional snow bath.

Now as a young man I prepare for a future Sun-dance under summer heat,

enduring four days without food and water in vision quest for life's meaning.

These Ute and Navajo traditional teachings ingrain traits of

humility, gratitude and resilience within me.

I am indigenous to this land.

I am from the Nearwater Dine’/Navajo clan

Born for the Northern Ute people

My maternal grandfather is from the Edgewater clan

My paternal grandfather is from the Spanish people of Santa Fe.

I live in a contemporary world, but I choose to keep my ancestors teachings ALIVE.

Where I go sacred elements surround and protect me.

Alfredo Quintana, age 17

Student Spotlight: Alfredo Quintana An interview with 2018-19 Poetry Finalist Alfredo Quintana Alfredo teaches Navajo cultural dance, drumming, singing, language arts, and helps students with their homework at an after school program for Native American students. He grew up dancing in his Navajo Pow...

03/22/2023

We want our school community to know that there are American Indian students from many Tribal Nations attending Nebo School District. These students are learning, teaching and THRIVING!!

03/17/2023

AJ Quintana teaching students to sing with the sand drum! Only their second time these students have heard this song.

03/09/2023

AJ will be teaching drumming and dancing starting next week! So if you want to bring your kids to learn how to Fancy Bustle Dance and the story behind this, come. The following weeks after he will also be teaching students how to sit around a drum, the protocols of drumming and singing. Come to after-school labs.

02/24/2023

Good morning!

FYI, HB427 will be heard today (Friday) at 4:00 pm in Senate Bldg room 120 in SLC. This is the bill that could potentially prevent us from talking about discrimination, racism, etc. in schools. We need to show that we don't support this bill. We need to protect truth, be inclusive and amplify the voices of those most vulnerable. Utah is made up of multiple beautiful communities who have made massive contributions for thousands of years!!
I encourage you to stand up for a brighter future where healing can take place.
Come with me!