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Flores, the singer-songwriter, has a story to tell, and she is fierce in her commitment to making sure that she is the one who tells it.

For new EP, The Lives They Left, weaves together Flores' experiences growing up on the Tigua Indian Reservation, being raised by an activist mom who started the meet with a Mas movement dedicated

to preventing violence against women in Mexico and South America.

Flores and I talk about making music about the U.S. from her home in Norway and how she's

using the privilege she has to make space for other indigenous artists.

Thank you. to make space for other indigenous artists. I am so happy to be here with you today.

Thank you so much for having me.

I do want to talk about you and you're growing up

because my understanding is you're born in

El Paso but then you're raised on the Tigua Indian Reservation. Can you talk to me a little bit

about where that is and what it was like to grow up there? Where I live is one of the first

settlements of Spanish colonials dating back to 1509 or so.

And where I live, the church that they built is there still.

It's refurbished due to flooding.

But it's quite unique because there's a lot of displaced pueblo people that were moved along the

border because of colonization. And there was a lot that either were absorbed into Mexican identity

or their whole tribal affiliations have been lost, the languages were lost.

They no longer exist.

And the Tiwa population actually managed to stay, but they were considered the poorest people

unworthy of being a part of Texas.

So the area that my family is from is from this region called Isletta, which is actually a

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