Yá’át’ééh!
Shí ei Amanda Bahe yíníshyé. Kinyaa’áánii nishlí, Táchii’nii bashashchiin, Ashiihí ei dashichei, dóó Deeshchii’nii ei dashinalí. Shimá dóó shizhe’e ei Johanna dóó Gary Bahe wolyé aadóó shitsilí dóó shideezhí ei Garrison, John, dóó Kayla Bahe wolyé. Ch’ínlídęę naashá.
Hello!
My name is Amanda Bahe and I am the reigning Miss Native American University of Arizona 2008-2009. I am of the Towering House Clan born for the Red-Running-Into-The-Water Clan. My maternal grandfather is of the Salt People Clan and my paternal grandfather is of the Start-of-the-Red-Streaked-People Clan. I am the daughter of Johanna and Gary Bahe and the older sister of Garrison, Kayla, and John Bahe. Chinle, Arizona, which is also known as Canyon De Chelly, is my hometown.
Contact Amanda Bahe:
abahe1@email.arizona.edu
Currently, I am a second-year student focusing on the Pre-Health track with the eventual goal of someday going to medical school. I graduated from Chinle High School, which is located in my hometown, so I’m proud to say that I am a true Wildcat! I have spent the past couple of summers at institutions like: Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire; The University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma; and The OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, all in pursuit of an educational challenge when I am not doing school full-time. As an adamant advocate of education, it is my hope that, as an ambassador for the U of A, I send this message to as many of my Native peers and youth as possible. As part of the U of A’s Native American First Year Scholar’s Program, I am working as a peer mentor and live among the 30 first year students we have in our living-learning community. I am also a mentor for the Native SOAR Program and work throughout the Tucson community by mentoring middle school students.
Aside from working on my undergraduate degree, I have a vast array of interests. Just to name a few are: traveling; reading; writing; music (listening, playing, and composing; being with family and friends; and watching my favorite journalist, Ann Curry, on The TODAY Show every morning! The most important of all of these, however, is spending time with my younger siblings who have instilled in me the ambition to keep striving for more in hopes of being the one to show them the many wonderful opportunities that are waiting for them! Of course, with this ambition is the goal that I am also leading the way for all of you to not just follow, but to lead others in as well.
Working alongside Miss Native American U of A for the past couple of months has been, perhaps, the most defining moments of my first year in college. This is a position that has given me much confidence in and admiration for the Native community that surrounds and comforts me. The work that we do is for and because of all of you, Thank You so much!
May You Always Walk In Beauty,
Amanda Bahe
Miss Native U of A 1st Attendant, 2008-2009
Navajo Nation: http://www.navajo.org/