Youth Language Fair Shirts Feature Winning Artwork

Big thanks to @ou.linguistics for the opportunity to collaborate for the 2025 Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair (ONAYLF)! We loved bringing your vision to life through print.

The Sam Noble Museum is honored to host the largest event for linguistic diversity in the state. Nowhere else in Oklahoma can over 40 indigenous languages be heard in the same place. Every spring, hundreds of student speakers and learners of native languages from Oklahoma and other states gather in Norman for the Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair (ONAYLF), a celebration of language diversity and cultural heritage. Participants take to the stage in live presentations of song, speech and story. Meanwhile students proudly display poster art, films, books, cartoons and writing for all to see.

Every student that enters a performance or material category in person receives a t-shirt that bears the grand prize poster art from the previous year. Online participants receive a bag with the grand prize poster art from the previous year. Attendees also receive medallions and compete for first, second and third place trophies per category and age division, which are awarded by panels of native speakers, elders and educators for language use, fluency, spirit of performance and stage presence.

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