A Message from the Executive Director

     Welcome to the Guilford Native American Association, Inc. web site. We hope that as you browse this site you will be provided with clear and helpful information about our programs, services, and products. GNAA, a United Way Agency, is a nonprofit, multipurpose Urban Indian Center in Downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. Our goal is to assist Native Americans in achieving social and economic Self-Sufficiency.

GNAA operates programs / activities for children, youth, adults, and the Elders that address child care, outreach and referrals, employment and training, emergency assistance, transportation, substance abuse, and leadership, economic, and cultural development. Major projects addressing these needs are the operation of a day care center, a computer lab, the Workforce Investment Act Program, and the Guilford Native American Art Gallery and Gift Shop. Cultural arts programs include an annual Pow Wow, two major cultural arts festivals, and dance and cultural classes.

While browsing this web site please enjoy the links to our Guilford Native American Art Gallery, the first Native American Fine Art Gallery of its kind in North Carolina and the Southeastern United States. The Art Gallery and Gift Shop is located at the beautiful Greensboro Cultural Center at Festival Park on 200 North Davie Street in Downtown Greensboro.

We are especially excited to announce that our new Pocosin American Indian Store opened about a week before Christmas Day 2002. The Pocosin American Indian Store Grand Opening will be held Friday and Saturday April 4th and 5th, 2003 and you are welcome to come now to see and shop the store! Here briefly is the address and contact information on the new Pocosin American Indian Store:

Wanda Walker Attmore
Store Manager
Pocosin American Indian Store
230-A South Elm Street, Greensboro, NC  27401
Phone:  336.574.0338 - Fax:  336.574.0356
Open Tuesday - Saturday
Store Hours:
Sunday and Monday Closed
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 7pm
Saturday - 10am - 6pm
Email:   pocosin@bellsouth.net

We encourage you also to purchase some of the "one-of-a-kind" merchandise from our Art Gallery Gift Shop during your next visit. The Gift Shop has a wide array of art by Native American artists from North Carolina and throughout the United States.

I would like to offer a sincere thanks to the many individuals, agencies, schools & colleges, civic organizations, churches, and corporations that assisted us last year with our food, clothing, and toy drives.

Again, thank you for visiting our web site. Enjoy. E-mail us about any questions or need for more information that you may have.

Sincerely,

Rick Oxendine, Executive Director
Guilford Native American Association, Inc.

A United Way Agency