Noemi Aidee Tungui Aguilar comes from the Purépecha people of Michoacán, Mexico. She is an activist and an educator, on a journey to celebrate her culture that was nearly wiped out through colonialism.
I met Noemi at a Water Protectors camp near Palisade, Minnesota where she went by the camp name Luna. She traveled there from her home in California to protest the construction of the Line 3 pipeline and to continue her advocacy for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women.
We talked about the agricultural work that brought her family from Mexico to the United States, her embrace of and pride in her indigenous culture, and the urgency surrounding the epidemic of violence against indigenous women.
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