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.

The Pinto family would like to see Shannon Pinto succeed her grandfather and they support her nomination. Just like Sen. Pinto, Shannon deserves our support to serve as a state senator. If she is given fair and equal opportunity, I sincerely believe that Shannon will make us proud, just like her grandfather.

With nothing in mind and no expectations, I set out for the U.S. Capitol in Wááshindoon. That is, Washington, the District of Columbia, where thousands were expected for the Indigenous Peoples March, the Women’s March and the Martin Luther King Jr. March.