I spend a lot of time honoring and calling upon my Native American ancestors. I am keenly aware that my father’s people hold a venerable medicine as well. He has ancestry from the Great Sacred Motherland of Europe. I have been called a half breed. I have been called a mutt. Impure. I have been […]
Lyla June Johnson
Lyla June Johnston was raised in Taos, New Mexico, and is a descendant of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. She is a musician, public speaker, and internationally recognized performance poet. In 2012, she graduated with honors from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Anthropology. During her time there she wrote several award-winning papers, including “Chonos Pom: Ethnic Endemism Among the Winnemem Wintu and the Cultural Impacts of Enlarging Shasta Reservoir.”