We are among the Women of Bears Ears — Indigenous women who support our families and communities in the protections of ancestral lands. We come from Diné, Nuche, Pueblo and other allied Native Nations. From these Southwestern lands, twin buttes rise; they are known as Bears Ears.
We have been birthed into these lands. The umbilical cords of our ancestors are buried here. Our genealogies are intertwined.
Our clans are passed on through our mothers. We are matrilineal societies that carry the bloodlines of our people. The Clan Mothers have always tended to the landscapes that gave them birth for hundreds of generations. Our ancestors are rooted here. We are grounded here...