I'm Thank you, thank you, this is Elena Ortiz with Red Power Hour calling in from Ogapoga Owinge, otherwise known as Santa Fe.

I am one of the hosts of Red Power Hour.

I'm flying solo without Melanie today.

But I have a special guest, Dr. Christina Castro, who's going to join me today for a little

talk about an event that's taking place up near Okayowinge,

and also sort of the ongoing drama activism that has been really going on for many, many decades around the celebration of conquistadors

and the celebration of specifically Juan de Onete.

But I want to give Christina a chance to introduce herself and to talk a little bit about the event,

and then we can get into some of the

history and all that. So thank you. Thank you. Hello, everyone. Again, thank you for the warm

welcome, Elena. It's nice to be in conversation with you. I always appreciate your intelligence,

your experience, your wisdom,

your perspective, your matriarchal wisdom. I'm always happy to engage with you. So thanks for having me. So I am Dr. Christina M. Castro. My comrades lovingly call me Dr. X. I am from

Tals Pueblo and Hamas Pueblo on my matriarchal side.

Specifically, Tals Pueblo is where my matriarchical lineage comes from.

And my dad's from Los Angeles.

He's Chicano with borderland indigenous roots.

That being said, I am co-founder of Three Sisters Collective, established in 2017, after a couple trips to Standing Rock, really feeling activated and wanting to take that energy and bring it home to address some of the issues here we have in our communities.

It was also a way for me during my PhD program to stay on the ground and really

feeling disconnected through that doctoral process and really wanting to be on the ground and

have my feet with the people. And so this organization three sisters that I co-founded with

two other Taosz pueblo women, Autumn Gomez and Autumn Billy, is heartwork, really, for me,

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