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| Truth of the matter. Graphic made by Yazzgrl Art Photo credit: Venaya Yazzie 2019 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |
As a member of the southwestern, high-desert tribal people of the Dine' (Navajo) and Hopi people, this is my truth. As an Indigenous woman, we are rooted in Indigenous matriarchy. I believe that that because of this identity, we therefore, cannot be "feminists." The "F" word is the total opposite of our Indigenous women's society. I hope we can, as women, find our history and root ourselves in our tribal traditions and ways of the matriarch, not in the ways of non-Indigenous concepts of the femme.
Get "knowledg-ed" in your ways - not in their ways. We have a strong and resilient oral history and a culture narrative that is so unique and beautyful, get to know who you are, and where your history lies - that is your strength.
Blessings
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