Moore new Miss Northwest Indian Youth Conference queen
New Miss NWIYC Queen Myke Moore.
FORT HALL — Myke Moore is the new 2019-2020 Miss Northwest Indian Youth Conference queen after Mary Benally resigned because of personal reasons.
The Fort Hall NWIYC Committee made the announcement in a press release.
NWIYC Conference Coordinator, Jessica James, said, “I would like to congratulate Myke on being selected as the newly crowned Miss NWIYC and wish her a successful year of representing NWIYC as she travels from powwow to powwow.”
The NWIYC title is honorable and recognizable not only in the northwest but also represents the mid-west. James said they had a Lakota youth group that came and another from as far as Northwest Nebraska at this year's NWIYC conference. “They were excited to visit our region and meet youth from the Pacific Northwest," she said.
Miss NWIYC is an ambassador for all Tribes in the Pacific Northwest including Idaho, Oregon, California and Washington states and represents Native American youth in leadership, culture, health, education, and empowerment.
Myke Malaina Moore is 15 years old and enrolled with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in Fort Hall. Myke’s newe (Shoshone) name is Buna’bede (meaning the ‘only one’); she was named by her cagu naap (maternal Grandma) Iva Lee Osborne, meaning she is her father’s only daughter. Myke is the daughter of George Moore of Pyramid Lake, Nevada and Wendy Farmer of Fort Hall. She attends high school at Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and plays ninth grade basketball while maintaining a 3.0 GPA. Myke also enjoys playing softball, camping, salmon fishing, traveling to powwows in Indian Country and having new adventures with her family.
