Pauly Denetclaw

Pauly Denetclaw, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is Haltsooí (Meadow People) born for Kinyaa’áanii (Towering House People). An award-winning reporter based in Gallup, New Mexico, she has worked for the Navajo Times and Texas Observer covering Indigenous communities, and her radio pieces have aired on KYAT, National Native News, NPR’s Latino USA and Texas Public Radio. She is a board member of the Native American Journalists Association. Follow her on Twitter, @pdineclah.

Pieces by this contributor

'We Will Never, Ever Stop Having Abortions'

Access to abortion was already difficult for Indigenous women and people who birth before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision, due to the Hyde Amendment banning the use of federal money for abortion care.

Supreme Court Could Halt Access to Safe Abortions for Many Indigenous People

Activists say overturning Roe v. Wade would be another move in a long history of federal policies that have impacted Indigenous people’s right to choose when and if they have children.