And So, Good afternoon. My name is Jennifer Marley. It is June 28th, 2021 and I'm in Espinula, New Mexico,

Tewwa Territory with Biata Sossi.

Kuta Woha, thank you again for talking with me today. Would you like to introduce yourself?

Sure.

And I'm behind me.

Now, who are he what the body,

nahua o'haway,

nah hopoing ou,

my name is Biata. I'm from Santa Clara Pueblo. I also grew up in a small town up north called

El Rito and we're here at the Espiniola Healing Foods Oasis,

Demonstration Garden in Valdez Park in Espiniola.

One of our community garden projects that we've been working on the last five years as part of our

environmental health and justice program with Teawa Women United. Thank you so

much. So like I said, I want this conversation to just kind of be open and free-flowing.

So I just have a few vague questions to prompt conversation, but again, I really just want this to be what you want to be heard and what you want to be left behind for future generations to know.

And so, I guess a big one is knowing your background and your work and just you

as a person, what prompted you to first start getting into quote activism or if not that?

You know, to start organizing and looking more critically at the issues that impact us as Tewa people.

Yeah, I think my my activism or political cessation started kind of at a young age in college.

I had been in kind of a lot of subcultures in the music scene here in Espiniola. Just a lot of the lyrics of like music

kind of was like stuff I'd never thought about and so it got me thinking about

societal issues and government oppression at a young age. I was always aware of

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