Shandiin Herrera , 22, is all too familiar with the struggles that Garza and Ishmael describe. Herrera grew up on the Navajo Nation reservation in Monument Valley on the Arizona/Utah border, commuting to school over 20 miles away in Kayenta, Arizona. Growing up, she lived in a household without broadband access, and little cell service. The same was true for most people in her community, she toldTeen Vogue "But her vitals are stable. And she’s breathing on her own a little. Sometimes she hears me when I talk and squeezes my hand." A family friend of theirs, Amy Klinger,told CBS Baltimore "She’ll have pieces of the bullet in her brain forever," Moreland told theLas Vegas Review-Journal According to Tilsen, who is Oglala Lakota, the term was born about a decade ago, when a number of Indigenous artists started using it. Further popularized by memes and social media, the mantra has since evolved to encapsulate and inform the political stances of activists who’ve been on the front line for a long time, as well as their allies.