Women seem to be taking their rightful place  as leaders who can run nations & constituents just as they have long run their families & households. Women are the original nurturers, book keepers, organizers, planners and multi-taskers who have an innate ability to make “a $1 out of 50 cent” when it comes to the responsibility of taking care of others & making due with very little while making miracles happen. Dilma Rousseff who just became Brazil’s first female president is perhaps the most powerful woman in the world right now because she is now the leader of an economic powerhouse who boasts lending money to the almighty IMF (International Monetary Fund) which less than 6 years ago it was over $40 billion in debt to.

As the USA gears up for the November 2nd elections, there will be history made amongst America’s Natives if Lynda Lovejoy has anything to say about it. While most Americans & the media are focused on the incendiary battles between Democrats, Republicans & the Tea Party; the Navajo nation which is the largest Native American tribe made up of constituents from Arizona, New Mexico and Utah will be reexamining & battling religious & cultural tradition to make history by electing their first ever female president. Many Americans probably know very little about its Natives  let alone the fact that they have  their own elected government, but hopefully a historical moment  will bring America’s much needed focus & attention to its Natives.

“Growing up on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona, Eunice Manson learned to become a medicine woman. Speaking through a translator, she explains why a woman should never lead the Navajo people…”At the time that she’s becoming a leader, if there are any pregnant women out there, when they bear their children, they’re going to bear monsters, with bad character, and these are the ones that are going to grow up and rise up and destroy our people,” she says…It’s those traditional fears that presidential candidate Lynda Lovejoy needs to overcome. In the last presidential election she took a big first step. She shocked the reservation as the first Navajo woman to be a finalist for the presidency. She lost that race. But this year, she easily beat the other primary candidates, and even though there are no polls, many now consider her the favorite to win…Lovejoy has never worked in Navajo government, but she is a New Mexico state legislator…”Being on the outside, not on the inside, is really an advantage I believe,” she says. “Because you’re going to bring in best practices, new ideas. You’re going to bring a different way to do things.” And there are a lot of Navajo people, like Myla Povateah, who want change…”Here on the Navajo Nation, we’ve lost a lot of our culture,” Povatean says. “We’ve lost a lot of our language, the younger generation don’t speak Navajo. And I think Lovejoy and Tulley will bring a lot of those things back into the spotlight..” READ MORE

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