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Lorena Fuerta Mescalero Apache/Yaqui Anna Ghostdancer something about knowing women brought your hands to light and reattached them, reburied you with ceremony that knowledge brought forth tears. I envision hands that loved and worked and held your sleeping children and I wonder did the killers understand what they were saying in relation to our women in their world? They must have been afraid of you to mutilate you so, to try to keep your hands from being raised against them now yet it is your hands I see reaching out with a warning to us all: something in the murder of a woman isolated from her people reminds us there are worse ways of dying than in fighting for our freedom 78 ...

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