I was born to missionary parents in the Southwest United States, a place known for millennia as the Tewa World. My life has been a gradual process of learning to honor this place and those who's ancestors cared for the land long before colonizers arrived from Europe. The invasion of European conquerors and settlers created a disturbing history, which is now ours to find a way through. Part of the healing is for me to reconnect with my own Indigenous roots; finding my way back to harmonious connection with Mother Earth.
Recognizing that the momentum of capitalistic, militaristic societies is rapidly carrying us toward extinction, the goal of my life-project is to shed the co…
Adventures of inner exploration. Memoir written to reveal what lay in waiting beneath the conditioning of my domestication and ways of coping.
H.O.P.E. is a nonprofit organization based at Santa Clara Pueblo New Mexico. We focus on environmental health issues as well as cultural preservation and rec…