Ashkia “Kia” Randy Trujillo left his car idling as he jumped out onto Central Avenue on Saturday evening to spontaneously perform a portion of an Ohkay Owingeh storytelling dance.
This specific dance is one that members of Trujillo’s pueblo have done for generations “to depict a successful hunt or a victorious battle, depending on the dancer,” Trujillo said to the Daily Lobo in an interview.
Trujillo’s dance was part of a larger community celebration in honor of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s defeat of Donald J. Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
University of New Mexico journalism student and New Mexico Daily Lobo photographer, Sharon Chischilly, captured the moment on video and posted it to her Instagram and Twitter accounts. Chischilly is Navajo — born and raised in the Navajo Nation, an area that has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic — and is known for her skill in depicting Indigenous communities. Over the last six months, Chischilly’s photography has been featured in the Navajo Times, New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and other international outlets.
By Sunday evening, the video had been viewed 4.4 million times, more than 2,000 people had left comments and nearly 34,000 had shared the video. A number of verified Twitter influencers had boosted the video, including the rapper Common, Congresswoman Deb Haaland and actor and indigenous rights activist Mark Ruffalo.
Given the COVID-19 pandemic social distancing directives and Albuquerque’s long history of weekend cruises down Central Ave., the car rally and Trujillo’s response to the election results were the New Mexican manifestation of the joy and relief much of the many in the community and across the globe were experiencing.
“Without a single word, this Native American man expressed every feeling of VICTORY, jubilation and undeniable RELIEF that every American feels right now about tRump being voted out. I’m in tears. I feel this IN MY SOUL,” Stacey Laney posted to Twitter.
Trujillo told the Daily Lobo in an interview that he has been the group leader for a dance group from the Pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh for the past 10 years. The dance group was the first youth dance group — all under the age of 18 from Ohkay Owingeh — to ever perform outside of the pueblo.
Usually group leaders are elders, according to Trujillo, but he has been practicing and learning since he was two years old. Trujillo said that this dance was just another example of his deep commitment to “bring friends together to continue our culture and traditions.”
When asked how he felt about the influx of attention his dance was garnering, Trujillo said, “(To be honest), I'm actually surprised. I never expected to get this much recognition. I feel as if now it’s my duty to do my best to express the voice of my Indigenious people.”
Lissa Knudsen is the news editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @lissaknudsen
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