Ungelbah Davila

Dec 4, 2024 | newmexicomagazine.org | Lynn Cline |Ungelbah Davila |Julian Dossett |Debra Levy Martinelli

Met New Mexico Magazine's 2024 True Heroes on YouTube: @newmexicomag The lifelong volunteer devotes himself to time-honored community traditions and creating new celebrations. LOGAN FLEHARTY When wildfires hit Ruidoso, a local tattoo artist became a beacon of hope by checking on homes and feeding animals. LOREN ANTHONY The actor and musician rallies volunteers to cut, load, and deliver firewood to Navajo Nation elders and others in need.

Dec 4, 2024 | l8r.it | Ungelbah Davila

EARLY LAST WINTER, the fresh snowfallwas melting, mixing with the red earth and caliche to become a thick, treacherous mud. The air was bitter cold in the way it gets around Gallup, where temperatures can drop well below zero. As Loren Anthony, founder of nonprofit Chizh for Cheii (Firewood for Grandpa), was making his rounds, delivering firewood to community members in need, he spotted a home with no tire tracks going to or from it.

Dec 4, 2024 | newmexicomagazine.org | Ungelbah Davila

EARLY LAST WINTER, the fresh snowfallwas melting, mixing with the red earth and caliche to become a thick, treacherous mud. The air was bitter cold in the way it gets around Gallup, where temperatures can drop well below zero. As Loren Anthony, founder of nonprofit Chizh for Cheii (Firewood for Grandpa), was making his rounds, delivering firewood to community members in need, he spotted a home with no tire tracks going to or from it.

Nov 20, 2024 | newmexicomagazine.org | Ungelbah Davila

A DINÉ WOMAN wields a lightsaber on a black and turquoise T-shirt by Reclaim Designs. She is powerful, elegant, and a little intimidating, not unlike the Indigenous matriarchs she represents. Another design reimagines a woman hunting caribou as a Star Wars rebel scout. Above her is the call to action “Skoden” (Native slang for “let’s go then”) in red with the word translated below in the Star Wars alphabet.

Nov 20, 2024 | l8r.it | Ungelbah Davila

A DINÉ WOMAN wields a lightsaber on a black and turquoise T-shirt by Reclaim Designs. She is powerful, elegant, and a little intimidating, not unlike the Indigenous matriarchs she represents. Another design reimagines a woman hunting caribou as a Star Wars rebel scout. Above her is the call to action “Skoden” (Native slang for “let’s go then”) in red with the word translated below in the Star Wars alphabet.