Votan Henriquez
National Park Lands Back
2021
Edgewood, NM
This piece brings up the conversation of how National Parks have been acquired, delimited and up-kept, while forbidding the original caretakers of the land from having access to them for ceremony, medicine picking and hunting. It has been proven time and time again that the best caretakers of these beautiful sites are its original inhabitants for they have a thorough understanding of the ecosystem and a direct connection to the land.
