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I'm Magna Chakra-Bardi.

Jessica Naranjo lives in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.

She is the mother of three and the grandmother of eight.

My mom, which is their great grandma, is known as grandma to them. But what they call me is

Satya, which is grandma in Tewa. Tewa is a Tanoan language spoke by several Pueblo nations in New

Mexico's Rio Grande Valley.

But Jessica isn't just any grandma.

In fact, she is the full-time caretaker of four of her grandkids,

aged four to 15 years old.

They live with her.

She's raising them.

Something she'd never thought she'd have to do after raising three children of her own.

I just, you know, assume like every other grandparent that, you know, that their parents would be there to take care of them.

But that wasn't the case.

My oldest granddaughter who was 15 and my 11-year-old granddaughter belonged to my son and his girlfriend at the time have alcohol addictions. They also had domestic violence issues.

And then at one point they were also incarcerated. So that's how I took on caretaking for my

oldest granddaughter and my 11-year-old.

The girls were young when Jessica began raising them in 2016.

Soon after, she took on full-time care of her daughter's firstborn and later her daughter's second child.

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