A First For Indian Country
This golf tournament is a first of its kind, entirely funded and operated by Indian Nations (title sponsors include San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians of California and Oneida Indian Nation of New York) and will support Begay's mission of bringing Native American people together to benefit Indian youth. The NB3 Challenge further demonstrates how tribes are coming together to help improve the country's economy, create jobs and educate the nation’s first people. Additionally, the tournament allows tribes who have experienced economic prosperity with an opportunity to give back to their communities where help is needed most – among Native children growing up on reservations.
Read more about this topic: Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge
Famous quotes containing the words indian and/or country:
“I confess what chiefly interests me, in the annals of that war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs. A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?—he said, “he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I walk toward one of our ponds; but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base? We walk to lakes to see our serenity reflected in them; when we are not serene, we go not to them. Who can be serene in a country where both the rulers and the ruled are without principle? The remembrance of my country spoils my walk. My thoughts are murder to the State, and involuntarily go plotting against her.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)