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-BETWEEN 1969 & 1973 APPROX. 100 WOMEN JOINED -LITERALLY LEARNED TO PERFORM ABORTIONS -HELPED MORE THAN 11,000 PEOPLE AND NOT ONE CLIENT DIED! -WERE ARRESTED & TO PROTECT THEIR CLIENTS THEY LITERALLY ATE THEIR CLIENTS' RECORDS IN THE BACK OF THE POLICE VAN *Studied to become a shaman even though the Padres outlawed Native practices *Helped lead a rebellion against the (military-protected) Mission *SCALED THE MOTHERFUCKING MISSION WALLS PREGNANT -born a slave -outsmarted her slave owner and got her children sold to their (white) father to protect them -LITERALLY LIVED IN A TINY CRAWL SPACE FOR SEVEN YEARS WHILE SHE WAITED TO FLEE THE STATE -In a time when few slaves were allowed to learn to read or write, this queen *wrote her own fucking memoir*

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