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For 30 years, Tewa Women United (TWU) has brought together indigenous women from the Tewa and other indigenous tribes throughout northern New Mexico’s pueblos, and across the United States, to address the problems facing their families and the larger community. In recent years, the group has turned its attention to a particular problem connected to reproductive health: After African-American women, Native-American women face the second-highest rate of death during childbirth, more than twice the rate of white women. In 2003, the Tewa Birthing Project began to examine the disparities in health care for indigenous women, particularly by creating more access to the support provided by a midwife or doula. Last year, a doula training program was organized to help broaden access to health care and create a safer birth experience with less medical intervention. It is free of charge for the students, asking only that they assist with three births within the community.

Today we are releasing the 2019 edition of #AmericanWomen, a portfolio of resilience, innovation, beauty, and daring, from the Arizona Border to the shores of Oahu and the snowy wilderness of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. For this annual series, we are highlighting the stories of ten extraordinary groups of women on the West coast of this should-be-great, can-do-better country.
Above: Jessamine Vallo, daughter of Liana Joy Sanchez.
“My youngest daughter was the surprise of a lifetime,” said Sanchez. She chose to have Jessamine at the hospital because of how the baby was positioned on her cervix, but said, “From the first hospital birth to the second are totally different—they have come a long way in 18 years.” Photographed by @danalixenberg, written by Rebecca Moss

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