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Adapting and Surviving: Growing up Urban Indian
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Beauty of Pain: Staying True to Your Narrative
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Unapologetically Native: Confronting Stereotypes and Microaggressions
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Native Perspectives: Relationship with the Land
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Empowered Minds: Reclaiming Indigeneity
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Breaking Barriers: Navigating Indigenous Identity
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Royal DNA: Navigating Multiracial Identity
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Description
This powerful and unflinchingly honest episode of the Faces of Our Land Project, Del Curfman interviews Juanita Toledo. Central to this interview is Juanita's multifaceted and beautifully real voice, which speaks truth to issues of Native and racial identity and the core of what defines living at an intersection of multiple cultures. Throughout the episode, Juanita reflects on her personal experiences with being part of the LGBTQ+ community and embracing her unique racial identity and spiritual connection with Mother Earth. From her upbringing as an Afro-Indigenous woman from Jemez Pueblo to her evolving identity with what she calls her "Royal DNA," Juanita opens up about the trials she's faced with racial discrimination and her original attempt to break into the modeling industry. As a talented model, musician, poet, and artist, Juanita expresses pride in being part of the world of Indigenous fashion and speaks about its significance in proudly representing the talents and cultures of its designers. This episode of the Faces of Our Land Project resonates in the beauty of the undeniable truths that Juanita boldly voices. It is one that will stay with the reader and cause them to reexamine how a culture makes a person who they are.
