Rachael Lorenzo calls it their “auntie laugh,” a powerful chuckle that lasts long and fills any space. Aunties are prominent figures in Indigenous culture who offer comfort when one needs help.Aunties answer the phone when no one else does.That’s what Lorenzo, who is Mescalero Apache, Laguna and Xicana, does as founder of Indigenous Women Rising, a national fund that covers
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States with some of the largest Indigenous populations also have some of the strictest restrictions on abortion: places like North Dakota, South Dakota and Oklahoma, home to the Cherokee Nation,