Navajo students at a public school in New Mexico are seeking to educate youth and the public about healthy lifestyles.

The Dine Youth Council at Kirtland Central High School will host "Dine Protection Day" on Thursday to focus on substance abuse, abstinence and suicide. A Beauty Day will follow in April 2009, The Farmington Daily Times reported.

Ashkii Hatathlie, the president of the council, said membership in the group has doubled in the past year. About a third are non-Native.

"It's really for everyone — not just natives — who want to be proactive and advocate our culture," Hatathlie, who participates in United National Indian Tribal Youth, told the paper.

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Dine Youth Council hosts protection day (The Farmington Daily Times 11/19)