Just have to crow about . .

My youngest daughter, Anna. She is a 17-year-old Sequoyah High School senior and one of only five students in the U.S. to receive a full scholarship to the National Indian Education Association CloseUp Foundation Academy and Future Leaders Conference in Washington, DC during the week of Feb. 9-13. NIEA said Anna was chosen for her academic scholarship and her involvement in community. When she was a baby, Anna would go with me to activist meetings and sleep on a blanket.As she became a toddler, she would sit at the table with some pretty renowned Indian activists, coloring in her coloring book and taking in what everyone had to say. I can't tell you the number of times in her life her name has been associated with the word 'leadership.' When she was a baby, everybody called her 'Grandma' because she had the personality of someone who had been around for a really long time. She is beautiful, athletic, confident, talented, thoughtful, and as you can see, inspires great pride in her mom. Janet Littlecrow is finishing up a jingle dress for Anna, which will be one of her graduation gifts. Pray for good things for my Anna, and for all our Indigenous young women who try hard to stay on a positive, strong path.