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This an image of my home, Dinétah. It is the last image I took of home before the pandemic began.
I haven't been home since. Winoka Yepa 2020

Winoka Yepa is a Native (Dine’) American scholar (anticipated Ph.D. in Spring 2021), museum manager, artist, poet, and writer. For her website.

I am a daughter of Changing Woman, the mother of Monster Slayer and Born of Water, 

the first two children of the five-fingered people, our Diné people. 

I am a child of the Weaver-Zia clan, born for the Within His Cover clan.

I am the granddaughter of the Salt People Clan and of the Water Flows Together clan.

I was born and raised in Dinétah, our people’s land, in a small town of 45,000 people located on the cusps of the Diné border. 

I am a Diné woman. 

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