Taboo Issue Topic: Politics
\n<\/strong>Words by Laura Zolman Kirk
\n<\/strong>Photography by Keith Pitts<\/strong><\/p>\n

We found her by chance: a search for small-town female politicians. The more we researched, the more complex and diverse she became. \u201cSurely this cannot be the same woman,\u201d we thought. A run for president of the Navajo Nation, a mother of six\u00a0, a grandmother to four, a member of the Navajo Nation Council, a unifying leader in her community and the current Apache County Recorder. Does a mother of six really run for president?<\/p>\n

The answer we soon discovered was \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

LeNora could easily be described as the Navajo Leslie Knope. You name it, she\u2019s done it, with poise and a \u201cthat\u2019d be fine\u201d attitude. She is not the type of grandmother to sit around and let others take over the firewood delivery for her; she\u2019s the one rolling up her sleeves to deliver it herself. She is a woman in the service of people: her family and her nation. What we need to do with our lives, LeNora told me through a tender smile, \u201cis to help others, to love and have love in our hearts for other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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