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Roundstone Home
Homes Across America highlights Marys home. More...
Mary's Home
Homes Across America highlights Marys home. More...
Good Deeds Good Design
Red Feather and other examples of community service through architecture.
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From the Field
Meeting in the Mountains featured in Back to Building dispatch. More...

Nice Modernist
Dwell Magazine honors Red Feather program. More...
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American Profile
Young and his staff work closely with American Indian communities to navigate the complexities of building on reservation land and ultimately construct a home that addresses the needs of each recipient. "It's empowering to be part of the process," he says. "Community involvement is the key; they're the experts at what's best for them, not us."
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Volvo For Life Awards
Robert Young, founder of Red Feather, was named America's greatest hometown
hero at the Volvo for Life Awards ceremony in New York on April 16, 2003.
The judges -- Hank Aaron, Bill Bradley, Dr. Jane Goodall, Caroline Kennedy,
Maya Lin, Paul Newman, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Dr. Sally Ride helped
select the top winners.
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The Oprah Winfrey Show
Red Feather Development Group's Founder Robert Young, appears on "The
Oprah Winfrey Show" as recipient of Oprah's Angel Network's "Use Your
Life Award". More...
Guideposts Magazine
Guideposts Magazine featured their readers' support of Red Feather's programming
in their February 2007 issue. Read the article here.
Homes Across America
Homes
Across America opens the "front door" to resource
efficient and high performance home building in the U.S. Visitors can
search for homes around the country and find out about the "green"
technologies and techniques used to build them. Home profiles offer resource
efficient and low maintenance solutions for all incomes and sizes of families.
Examples include everything from "off-grid" homes to high performance
production models to multi-family apartments. Two of Red Feather's projects
are featured: Mary's
home in Hotevilla, Arizona and the Roundstone
home in Busby, Montana.
Polo.com
Celebrities are lending their support to Robert Young's Red Feather Development
Group. In the last six years, with the help of hundreds of volunteers
and tribal members, and the celebrity support of Robert Redford, Pearl
Jam and Oprah Winfrey, Red Feather has been able to provide and assemble
proper housing for American Indian nations. More...
Sappi Fine Paper's ‘Ideas
that Matter’ Grant 2003
Thanks to an ‘Ideas that Matter’ Grant and studiovertex
of Seattle, Red Feather has published Building
One House: a Handbook for Straw Bale Construction.
Written by Red Feather's former Rose Fellow, Nathaniel Corum, the handbook
represents an important tool for sharing the straw bale construction process
with American Indian communities. More...
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Yellow Crow Lodge by Artist R.
Tom Gilleon
Artist R. Tom Gilleon is lending a special hand to Red Feather through
his talents as an artist. Mr. Gilleon has painted “Yellow Crow Lodge”-
a special limited edition Giclee print is available through Red Feather
at a cost of $250. All proceeds to benefit our American Indian Sustainable
Housing Initiative. Click
here to learn more about R. Tom Gilleon and Timberline Studios.
To order your print click
here.
Natural Home Earth Mover Award
Natural
Home Magazine salutes Robert Young with the Natural Home Earth
Mover Award. Earth movers are people who are making grass roots efforts
to change their neighborhoods and communities for the better.’ More...
Christian Science Monitor
The Rez Protectors, a group of Crow girls win a National Science Project
Award. With their prize money, the four middle school girls have funded
a straw-bale study hall on their reservation. More...
SAFECO 2002 Rudy Award
SAFECO Recognizes the Achievements of Red Feather Development Group and
Robert Young with the 2002 Rudy Award Robert Young is be presented with
a 2002 Rudy Award plus a donation in his name to Red Feather Development
Group. One of only 12 nationwide winners this year. More...
Seattle Times
Robert Young takes road less traveled to provide Indians with housing.
Seven years ago Young sold his resort-wear businessand he's now one of
two people running Red Feather Development. More...
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Volvo For Life Awards
Robert Young, Red Feather's founder, wins inaugural Volvo For Life Award.
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Oprah
Robert Young is recipient of Oprah's Angel Network's "Use Your Life Award".
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A Place to Call Home
The April 2000 issue of Biography magazine featured Red Feather in its
article One Man's Mission to Help American Indians.
Earth Mover Award
Natural Home Magazine honors Robert Young. More...

Nation's Building News
Red Feather and Stanley Tools join forces for affordable housing. More..
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