Lyla June

Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages.

Lyla June is an internationally renowned public speaker, poet, hip-hop artist and singer-songwriter of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages, as well as a co-founder of the Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council, which focuses on developing systems to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in northern New Mexico.

Lyla June is a poet, hip-hop artist and acoustic singer-songwriter of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. She is a co-founder of The Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council, which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in northern New Mexico. She is a walker within the Nihigaal Bee Iiná Movement, a 1,000-mile prayer walk through Diné Tah (the Navajo homeland) that is exposing the exploitation of Diné land and people by uranium, coal, oil and gas industries.: dreamwarriors.co