Guest Essay

Tomorrow, hundreds of Native people from the United States and Canada will be joining hundreds of thousands of marchers in Washington, D.C., for the annual March for Life.

I am a Diné (Navajo) woman from Albuquerque, the ancestral homelands of the Pueblo people. I come from the Black Streaked Wood People Clan, born for white people, where I am a member of the Becenti and Holtz families. In this way, I am an Indigenous woman.

Rian Aumentado, 16, was looking for a fun summer job but instead found a meaningful one that involves helping his elders under Naatsis’áán Chapter’s summer youth program.