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2 years ago, Irene Begody left this explanation of the youtube video (link above) below the video:
She is a co-founder of The Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council, which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in the northern New Mexico. She is a walker within the Nihigaal Bee Iiná Movement, a 1,000-mile prayer walk through Diné Tah (the Navajo homeland) that is exposing the exploitation of Diné land and people by uranium, coal, oil and gas industries. She is the lead organizer of the Black Hill Unity Concert which gathers native and nonnative musicians to pray for the return of guardianship of the Black Hills to the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota nations. She is the also (sic) the founder of Regeneration Festival, an annual celebration of children that occurs in 13 countries around the world every September. Beautiful Navajo Rug dress and jewelry she is wearing proudly! she is Dine and Cheyenne raised in Taos. Just a beautiful person inside and out.
All I really know is that Lyla June has a beautiful voice and conveys a powerful and timeless message in her music.