Laura [name_u]Marie[/name_u] [name_f]Persephone[/name_f] (46) is [name_f]Aurora[/name_f], [name_f]Celeste[/name_f] & [name_f]Estelle[/name_f]’s mom. She teaches in a middle school, and when she’s not working she enjoys hiking with her family. She also enjoys taking her daughters shopping on special occasions.
Nadine [name_u]Riley[/name_u] Luarkie is a coworker of [name_f]Laura[/name_f]’s from Pueblo of [name_f]Laguna[/name_f]. She teaches 5th and 6th grade and is an advocate for accurate history education in schools. She has 3 adult daughters and a younger son from her second marriage. She enjoys taking them all out for hikes with their dogs.
Shysie [name_f]Arlene[/name_f] [name_m]Nakai[/name_m] (24) is one of [name_f]Nadine[/name_f]'s daughters. She teaches high school students on Tribal lands. She grew up in the tribes and has a deep respect for Native culture. She is a writer and craftsperson in her spare time.
Olathe [name_u]Marie[/name_u] [name_m]Nakai[/name_m]-[name_u]Riley[/name_u] “[name_m]Ola[/name_m]” (27) is [name_f]Nadine[/name_f]'s middle daughter. She is a trained nurse and activist. [name_m]Ola[/name_m] is running for state representative to fight for the liberties and rights of the Pueblo Tribes and Native people across the United States.
Ahote [name_m]Booker[/name_m] Kabotie-Luarkie (18) is [name_f]Nadine[/name_f]’s youngest son from her second marriage. He is a film student in his freshman year of school.
Asher [name_m]Manuel[/name_m] [name_m]Jimenez[/name_m] (18) is Ahote’s best friend from high school. He loves playing video games, walking his dog and hanging out with his friends.
[name_f]Hazel[/name_f] [name_u]Wren[/name_u] [name_m]Miller[/name_m] (18) [name_u]Asher[/name_u]’s childhood best friend and neighbor. She has always had feelings for [name_u]Asher[/name_u] but has never been able to tell him. She is currently going to the same local collage as [name_u]Asher[/name_u] and is majoring in music. She was so excited when they both got excepted but now they seem to have drifted apart. She misses her big family (she is the oldest of 7,all of them have beautiful red hair) but they aren’t too far away. [name_f]Hazel[/name_f] didn’t realize how lonely growing up was going to be, but I think things are going to change for her soon.
Alana [name_u]Lindsay[/name_u] [name_m]Miller[/name_m] (10) is [name_f]Hazel[/name_f]’s sister. She loves reading and playing soccer.
Ruby Rose Miller (7) She is the fiestiest one of the family and she marches to the beat of her own drum. She is never doing as she’s told. You will probably find her climbing a tall tree, exploring outside, or climbing onto the roof to look at the stars. She is mischievous and loves to play pranks on people. She really hates school, the only thing that makes it tolerable is her best and only friend. They became friends because they have the exact same birthday and have been having birthday parties together since they were two. She was always bickering with her older sister Hazel, but now that she’s gone she secretly misses her.
Dexter [name_m]Henry[/name_m] [name_m]Miller[/name_m] (12) is one of [name_f]Hazel[/name_f], [name_f]Alana[/name_f] & [name_u]Ruby[/name_u]’s brothers. He’s definitely the shyest sibling, but he does have one best friend. He likes to swim and read in his spare time.
Zinnia [name_f]Joy[/name_f] Huff (11) [name_f]Zinnia[/name_f] is [name_u]Dexter[/name_u]’s best friend in the whole world! [name_f]Zinnia[/name_f] is extremely intelligent. She skipped 5th grade because she was way ahead and started 6th grade having no friends, that is until she met [name_u]Dexter[/name_u]. They bonded over their love of books and history and have been inseparable ever since. She lives with her baby brother, her mom, and her cat.
Azalea [name_f]Grace[/name_f] Huff (9 months) is [name_f]Zinnia[/name_f]’s little sister. She loves [name_f]Zinnia[/name_f] reading her books to her even though she’s too young to understand.
Esme [name_f]Pearl[/name_f] Shultz (16) is [name_f]Azalea[/name_f]’s baby sitter. She’s baby sitting so she can save up money to by a new camera. She hopes to be a photographer when she graduates but her strict parents think she should go to collage to get a “real job.”
[name_f]Sofia[/name_f] [name_f]Rafaela[/name_f] [name_m]Ortega[/name_m] (29) is [name_f]Zinnia[/name_f] & [name_f]Azalea[/name_f]'s mother. She is a biologist researching climate, urban ecosystems and sustainability. She secretly loaned [name_f]Esme[/name_f] a camera that she uses for research.
Avery [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] Shultz (14) is [name_f]Esme[/name_f]’s little sister. She loves to paint and wants more than anything to go to an art school instead of her normal high school.
Cosette “[name_u]Coco[/name_u]” [name_u]Marie[/name_u] Shultz (7) is [name_f]Esme[/name_f] and [name_u]Avery[/name_u]’s little sister. She loves ballet and all things girly. She is her mother and father’s favorite because she wants to be a lawyer just like them when she grows up. She makes great grades and is very competitive. She is in the same class as [name_u]Ruby[/name_u] [name_f]Rose[/name_f] [name_m]Miller[/name_m].
Juliet [name_f]Olivia[/name_f] Abernathy (7) is in the same class as [name_u]Ruby[/name_u] and [name_u]Coco[/name_u]. She likes to make people laugh and to go horseback riding.
Freya [name_f]Natalie[/name_f] Abernathy (16) is [name_f]Juliet[/name_f]’s older sister. She wants to be a makeup artist when she graduates and she already has a lot of the skills she needs.
