The Duck Valley Indian Reservation is home to Dayln and he is an enrolled member of the Shoshone Paiute Tribes. During the summer, Dayln works as a Type II Firefighter. Dayln just completed his freshman year at the University of Idaho in Moscow and is studying Fire Ecology and Natural Resources. He loves working out, playing basketball and learning new things by taking courses. Dayln works to dispel stereotypes about Indigenous people as they are portrayed in Hollywood movies.

Journie is an enrolled member of the Shoshone & Paiute Tribes and she lives with her family on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. Journie’s favorite subject is English. She enjoys watching movies with her family and horseback riding. She has competed in rodeo events including barrel racing, pole bending, breakaway and team roping. She loves the adrenaline rush of rodeo competition. Journey plans to attend Treasure Valley Community College and later attend the University of Wyoming. She would like to study equine nutrition.

LaRicci is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Nation and is also affiliated with the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of Duck Valley. LaRicci enjoys living in Lapwai, Idaho where he spends time outdoors hunting, fishing and playing football. He is interested in preserving and exercising the Nez Perce treaty rights in Idaho, Washington, and Montana where he hunts and fishes. He enjoys his Advanced Fitness classes and also learning about cultural sovereignty classes offered in his high school. During traditional food harvesting he collects edible mushrooms and roots with friends and family.

Sean is an enrolled member of the Shoshone & Paiute Tribes. He lives on the Duck Valley Reservation and loves sharing traditional music through hand drumming and singing traditional round dance songs. Sean wants people to be aware of U.S. policies that have disrupted Native families. Sean is interested in keeping his language alive and contributing to the preservation of his tribal nation’s cultural ways.

Shoni is a member of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribe of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. She lives and attends school in Boise where she is a Sophomore in school. Her interests are in music and technology. She plays the violin and is learning the viola, cello and bass. Shoni enjoys taking art classes where she excels in drawing and sketching. Shoni is learning to speak Shoshone from her grandmother. She believes that people should work together for the common good. When she graduates, she is planning to become an educator.

Teagan is an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. She was selected with the honor of representing her tribe as the 2022-2023 Shoshone-Bannock Jr/Sr High School Queen. Her aboriginal homelands include the Salmon and the Boise Valley areas. Teagan cares about nurturing others and maintaining traditional ways of life to support healing. Teagan accepts her responsibility as a land steward. Her ancestral family members have survived the residential school system. Teagan is a jingle dress dancer who dances for those who cannot.

Trevyn is an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock and affiliated with the Assiniboine, Hunkpapa Lakota, and Paiute Nations. Trevyn loves his life on the reservation which allows him to explore the mountains and be surrounded by family. He feels blessed to be able to sing, dance, drum, and gather medicinal plants to maintain traditional practices. He shares in the culture of the Shoshone Bannock people and the Lakota people.

Tziavi is enrolled with the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and is a descendant of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation where she currently lives. She loves her rich Indigenous culture and all of the ways her people take care of each other. Tziavi hopes to raise awareness about the Original Boise Valley People. Tziavi has worked with the Native Get Out to Vote Project in Nevada and helped found the Native Vote Youth Caucus in Nevada. She has been accepted to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts and during her first semester to study in Quecheun People who live in the Sacred Valley in Peru.

Willow is an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes and is also of the Yokut Nation. Willow is a direct descendent of Chief Paddy Cap of the Northern Paiute who asked for land to be set aside for the Northern Paiute as part of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, where Willow now lives. Willow is passionate about protecting Thacker Pass, a part of the Paiute Tribe’s aboriginal homelands, from exploitation for mining Lithium. Willow works to protect tribal traditions. Her goal is to be an underwater welder or veterinarian.