Puzzled about their meaning, again I asked for guidance. For the next eight years, my father assisted me as we laid the foundation for what is now the National Native American Honor Society. The overall philosophy of the Society is a wholistic approach based on ancient Hopi and other Indian tradition and customs. In essence, the Society endeavors to recognize academic achievement and to encourage a setting and atmosphere whereby students can become fit socially, mentally, physically and spiritually. By reaching out to exceptional students, the Society promotes positive and constructive values so that others will foster the same personal commitments to education and high self-esteem.
Members delight in sharing their gifts and good fortune with others.
Through membership in the Society, outstanding professional, intellectual, academic and personal standards are encouraged and rewarded. A student who has made outstanding contributions to education is rewarded by election to membership by being publicly honored and by other appropriate means such as conferring scholarships and awards. Society membership encompasses 4th grade through graduate school. Members qualify by making a 4.0 GPA semester anytime during their academic careers. For this they receive a membership certificate and an eagle pin.