Civic Activities
He has worked to publicize non-profits for several Indian nations. He travels regularly to visit the youth at the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico. He has reported on the issue of teenage suicide and publicized a suicide prevention program at the reservation, called Honor Your Life.
Tavare is the celebrity spokesperson for Adopt-a-Native-Elder (ANE), a non-profit organization organized by two women, Linda Myers and Grace Yellowhammer, that provides support through donations and volunteers to 500 Navajo elders in Utah and Arizona who choose to live traditionally. After the severe winter of 2009-2010, when many could not get around because of snow, the ANE and Tavare began the Warming Hearts Firewood program, specifically to raise donations to supply elders with firewood through the winter.
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