April 15, 2024
By: Cayla Mihalovich
One morning last spring, Moonlight Pulido called on rituals drawn from her Native American spirituality to confront a painful experience.
She stepped outside of her home in Carson, California, and lit a bundle of white sage that she keeps in an abalone shell by the back door. Pulido, who is Apache, fanned the smoke around her with a feather.
She was preparing to make quilt squares for a project to honor people who were forcibly sterilized at state prisons in California. A survivor herself, she said she was searching for a way to release the hurt and heartache.
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