National Indian Youth Council, Inc.

10/31/2026

🎃👻 Happy Halloween from all of us at NPAC/NIYC! 🍬

Wishing our community a spook-tacular Halloween filled with fun costumes, sweet treats, laughter, and good memories!

Whether you're trick-or-treating, spending time with family, or enjoying the festivities, stay safe, look out for one another, and have a frightfully fun time! 🧡🦇

No tricks, just treats and good community vibes! 🎃✨

10/27/2026

Honoring Our Past, Building Our Future ✨

The 2026 Clyde Warrior Civil Rights Recognition was more than a celebration. It was a powerful reminder that the fight for Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and self-determination lives on through every generation.Clyde Warrior believed in the power of Native people to lead, organize, and shape their own futures. His legacy is not just something we remember. It is something we carry forward.

This year, we came together to honor Indigenous leaders, celebrate the strength of our communities, and recognize those who continue to create change for future generations.
To our honorees, speakers, partners, and everyone who stood with us, thank you for being part of this legacy.

Relive the moments with us. Celebrate the leaders and carry the legacy forward.

10/15/2026

More than 60 years later, the fire still burns.

Clyde Warrior’s legacy lives not only in history books or stories from the Red Power movement. It lives in the educators, advocates, workforce leaders, public servants, artists, organizers, and community members continuing to create opportunities for Indigenous people today.

That is what the Clyde Warrior Civil Rights Recognition is about.

Today, we come together to honor our past, recognize the people carrying the work forward in the present, and inspire the generations who will shape what comes next.

🔥 Join us TOMORROW.

Clyde Warrior Civil Rights Recognition
📅 Friday, October 16
🕒 3:00–6:00 PM
📍 South Broadway Cultural Center
1025 Broadway Blvd. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87102

➡️ Learn more and RSVP at: https://ow.ly/RoHz50ZWXrR
Come celebrate Clyde Warrior’s legacy and the people continuing to carry the fire forward.

10/15/2026

What does self-determination look like when it becomes opportunity?

It can look like thousands of Native people gaining education, skills, training, and new pathways forward.

In this highlight from Episode 5 of Red Power Hour, we reflect on the impact education and workforce development can have across Native communities—and how the ideas behind a movement can become real investments in people.

The tactics may change from one generation to the next, but the goal remains: creating the conditions for Indigenous people and communities to thrive on their own terms.

Tomorrow, we honor those continuing that work.

🔥 Join us for the Clyde Warrior Civil Rights Recognition
📅 Tomorrow, October 16
🕒 3–6 PM
📍 South Broadway Cultural Center
1025 Broadway Blvd. SE, Albuquerque

➡️ Learn more and RSVP at: https://ow.ly/Qa8M50ZWXqq

10/14/2026

At the heart of Red Power was a simple but transformative idea:
Native people should have the power to make decisions for Native people.

Self-determination meant moving away from systems that dictated what communities could do and toward a future where Indigenous people could define their own priorities, leadership, institutions, and opportunities.

That idea helped shape a movement—and it remains at the heart of the work today.
In this highlight from Episode 5 of Red Power Hour, we explore how Red Power helped redefine what Indigenous leadership and self-determination could look like.

🔥 Clyde Warrior Civil Rights Recognition
📅 TOMORROW — October 16
🕒 3–6 PM
📍 South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque

➡️ Join us. Learn more and RSVP at: https://ow.ly/izAF50ZWXp5

10/14/2026

Red Power was more than a slogan.

It represented Native people organizing for self-determination, sovereignty, cultural pride, and the power to shape the future of their own communities.

In this highlight from Episode 5 of Red Power Hour, we revisit what Red Power meant to the young Indigenous organizers who helped build the movement—and why those ideas remain relevant generations later.

Clyde Warrior helped give voice to that vision. This Friday, we come together to honor his legacy and recognize leaders who continue putting those values into action.

🔥 Join the Clyde Warrior Civil Rights Recognition
📅 Friday, October 16
🕒 3–6 PM
📍 South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque

➡️ RSVP and learn more at: https://ow.ly/urfp50ZWXmH

10/13/2026

Movements don’t appear out of nowhere.

After generations of federal policies, forced assimilation, relocation, and decisions imposed on Native communities, a generation of young Indigenous leaders reached a breaking point.
They were, as this conversation puts it, “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

That frustration became action. Action became organizing. And organizing helped fuel a movement demanding something fundamental: the right of Native people to determine our own future.

Hear more about those beginnings in Episode 5 of Red Power Hour, then join us this Friday as we honor Clyde Warrior’s legacy and the leaders carrying that work forward today.

🔥 Clyde Warrior Civil Rights Recognition
📅 October 16 | 3–6 PM
📍 South Broadway Cultural Center
1025 Broadway Blvd. SE, Albuquerque

➡️ Learn more and RSVP at: https://ow.ly/oUJM50ZWXl7

10/13/2026

The history of Native activism didn’t begin with the movements most people recognize today.

Years before some of the best-known moments in Indigenous activism, Native young people were already organizing, taking direct action, and challenging a system that too often made decisions about Native communities without Native voices at the table.

In this highlight from Episode 5 of Red Power Hour, we look back at those often-overlooked years and the organizing that helped lay the groundwork for the Red Power movement and leaders like Clyde Warrior.

This week, we honor that history—and the people continuing the work today.

🔥 Join us for the Clyde Warrior Civil Rights Recognition
📅 Friday, October 16
🕒 3–6 PM
📍 South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque

Learn more and RSVP at: https://ow.ly/TWFb50ZWXkJ

10/12/2026

NEW EPISODE: Red Power Hour | Episode 5 — Clyde Warrior: From Red Power to Recognition

Hosted by Deanna Aquiar and Darius Lee Smith, this episode explores the history and legacy of Clyde Warrior, the beginnings of the Red Power movement, and how that spirit of self-determination continues through NPAC and the annual Clyde Warrior Civil Rights Recognition.

We also highlight the artists and community leaders being recognized this year for the ways they continue to strengthen Indigenous communities through leadership, education, workforce development, advocacy, public health, and service.

This is a conversation about where we come from, who is carrying the work forward today, and what that legacy asks of the next generation.

▶️ Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/t77yvJ0Pjsg

In Episode 5 of Red Power Hour, hosts Deanna Aquiar and Darius Lee ...

10/12/2026

“We’re Indigenous every day.”

NPAC/NIYC Executive Director Darius Lee Smith spoke with KOAT about today’s Indigenous Peoples Day celebration in Albuquerque — a day rooted in culture, community, civic engagement, and recognition of the Native leaders making an impact across our communities.

Today’s celebration at Tiguex Park brings together music, food, youth activities, Native vendors, community resources, and opportunities to learn more about voter registration and civic participation.

We’re proud to be part of a larger week of events uplifting Indigenous culture, leadership, and self-determination — including this Friday’s 3rd Annual Clyde Warrior Civil Rights Recognition.

Read more from KOAT:

Albuquerque's Indigenous Peoples Day celebration begins at Tiguex Park with music, food, and activities, alongside events throughout the week honoring Native culture and achievements