For years, while raising her children and teaching school, Arlinda traveled the vast Navajo Nation, removing women and girls from abusive homes, educating her people about the legions of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and lobbying for new legislation to prosecute offenders – and she did it all on her own dime. Arlinda could have embraced despair. Instead, she turned her own pain into positive action and never sought attention for it. There’s a saying in East Africa that goes something like this: Disaster struck, and then the women came.” Where Arlinda found the energy, we’ll never know. They say there’s no such thing as a hero, and that’s probably true, but if such a thing exists, she looks like Arlinda. This is what heroism looks like.
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