Xinachtli Youth

At A Glance

Location: 

Phoenix, Arizona

Primary Issue Area:

  • Food
  • Environmental Health
  • Land & Water

Active since:

1996

Core volunteers:

20

Group Links:

  • Here is a photo of our community garden mural project in 2018
  • Here is a picture of us harvesting our corn to be used in community feasts, ceremonies and and seed saving projects to give out to community members free of charge.
  • Here is picture of some of the youth and elders working together in planting in the community garden.
  • Here is a picture from March, 2021 of our spring community garden which we have 6 different youth who are taking turns in caring for the garden and who have taken initiative to keep the project going.
  • Here is a picture of our Spring Planting even with the second round of youth. Due to covid we held separate events to cohort kids and have socially distanced planting events. These young women are part of our youth group who are taking care of the garden this cycle.

Our Purpose

Xinachtli YouthXinachtli youth is a project under the non-profit of Tonatierra. Since the early 90’s the Xinachtli Program has been a vital component of the Indigenous Peoples community empowerment movement of Tonatierra. The Xinachtli program has focused on workshops that focus on Indigenous Ancestral Knowledge.We have created youth programming and a community garden to address the needs of our community. The mission of our community garden is to provide Indigenous educational programming that promotes a healthy lifestyle for youth. Our Community Garden program was developed to provide a safe place for youth to increase their connection with ancestral foods, Indigenous languages, and their overall health.