Local Motion: Beauty, Books, and Belonging: Lupita McClanahan and the Paonia Literary Project
(Brody Wilson)
In this episode of Local Motion, host Brody Wilson brings listeners two stories about how we connect to land, language, and each other.
Lupita McClanahan
In the first half, Diné elder Lupita McClanahan joins a packed room at the Sherbino Theater in Ridgway. Speaking from her home community of Canyon de Chelly, she shares memories of her childhood herding sheep beneath the sandstone walls, and the generational trauma of the Long Walk and federal boarding schools. Lupita describes being taken from her family at eight years old, having her hair cut and language punished as…
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