Cayla Nimmo Photography

A survivor and her son hold their hands up to a partition used to protect their anonymity during the interview at the Home for Women and Children in Shiprock Wednesday.

SHIPROCK, NM - March 2, 2016: A domestic abuse survivor and her son hold their hands up to a partition used to protect their anonymity during the interview at the Home for Women and Children in Shiprock Wednesday.

PINEHILL, NM - November 24, 2016: Ramah Police Officer Aileen Evens questions Hendrick Henderson outside Pinehill Health Center Thanksgiving day in Pinehill. Evens was found on the side of the road with a children's car seat filled with cans of alcohol. After Hendrick was questioned and cleaned up by EMS workers, he was placed in police custody and brought to the Ramah Jail.

081415 Cayla Nimmo..Police block protestors from Senator John McCain and other Arizona politicians after leaving a meeting at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock Friday.

WINDOW ROCK, AZ - August 14, 2015: Navajo Nation police officers block a group of protestors entering the forum where Senator John McCain and fellow Arizona politicians were holding a meeting at the Navajo Nation Museum.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM - January 21, 2016: A crowd estimated near 10,000 strong gather at the Civic Plaza in Albuquerque to support the Women's March on Washington sister rally.

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081914 Cayla Nimmo..Sissy Hood plays on the sandbags outside their home in Churchrock Tuesday afternoon.

CHURCKROCK, NM - August 19, 2014: Sissy Hood plays on the sandbags outside her home. The Hood family has to barricade their home with sandbags to keep flood waters from destroying the property.

Gary Mike hugs his son, Ian Mike during the candlelight vigil in honor of his daughter, Ashlynne Mike, Tuesday night at the San Juan chapter house in San Juan. Ashlynne and Ian were abducted Monday in the Fruitland area, Ian escaped but Ashlynne's body wa

SAN JUAN, NM - May 6, 2016: Gary Mike hugs his son, Ian Mike during the candlelight vigil in honor of his daughter, Ashlynne Mike. Both Ashlynne and Ian were abducted Monday in the Fruitland area, Ian escaped but Ashlynne's body was found by family members near the Shiprock pinnacle. Tom Begaye Jr. was indicted for her murder. Accordning to both his and Ian's statement, Ian was left in the van while Begaye took Ashlyenne out to the desert, stripped her naked and beat her to death.

SAN JUAN, NM - May 6, 2016:

Hundreds of people pay their respects to Ashlynne Mike at a roadside memorial, Tuesday, near mile marker 13 on Navajo Route 36 in San Juan where Ashlynne and her brother Ian Mike were abducted Monday.

State Police, McKinley County Police, and McKinley County Fire and Rescue work together to stabilize an injured driver at the scene of a two car collision in the north bound lane of 491 near Chee Dodge Elementary in Yah-Ta-Hey Thursday. The driver was air

GALLUP, NM - April 28, 2016: State Police, McKinley County Police, and McKinley County Fire and Rescue work together to stabilize an injured driver at the scene of a two car collision in the north bound lane of 491 near Chee Dodge Elementary in Yah-Ta-Hey Thursday. The driver was air-lifted to a hospital in Albuquerque.

FLAGSTAFF, AZ - March 18, 2016: Bernie Sanders hosted a town hall at Twin Arrows Casino. Sanders is the first and only presidential candidate to visit the Navajo Nation and address native rights and issues directly.

032715 Cayla Nimmo..Public Safety Officer Ernest Sanisya salutes the casket of Officer Alex Yazzie in Farmington Friday. Officer Yazzie was laid to rest at Memory Garden Cemetery, hundreds of law officials were in attendance.

FARMINGTON, NM - March 27, 2015: Public Safety Officer Ernest Sanisya salutes the casket of Officer Alex Yazzie in Farmington Friday. Officer Yazzie was laid to rest at Memory Garden Cemetery, hundreds of law officials were in attendance.

031415 Cayla Nimmo..Angela Cerci swaddles a dog post surgery, keeping him warm while Veterinarian Goddard Patrick, from the LaPlata County Humane Society in Durango, spays another dog in the mobile unit in Pinehill Saturday. Rez Dog Rescue set up a t

PINEHILL, NM - March 14, 2015: Angela Cerci swaddles a dog post surgery, keeping him warm while Veterinarian Goddard Patrick, from the LaPlata County Humane Society in Durango, spays another dog in the mobile unit Rez Dog Rescue set up a t

Lisa R. Benally stands in the spot where her car was washed off the road Sunday night in a storm. Benally was in the car with three other people including her son Elijah John Benally, 2, seen here on the right.

GALLUP, NM - September 2, 2015: Lisa R. Benally stands in the spot where her car was washed off the road Sunday night in a storm. Benally was in the car with three other people including her son Elijah John Benally, 2, seen here on the right.

011113 Cayla Nimmo..Community Service Aid, K. Francisco, helps pull Anthony Charlie to his feet on the corner of Coat and Third Street, where he passed out Thursday afternoon.

GALLUP, NM - April 3, 2014: Community Service Aid, K. Francisco, helps pull Anthony Charlie to his feet on the corner of Coat and Third Street, where he passed out Thursday afternoon.

011113 Cayla Nimmo..Community Service Aid, K. Francisco, confiscates a bottle of vodka from Duane Toledo outside Downtown Lowes Thursday afternoon, before escorting Toledo into the CSA van.

GALLUP, NM - April 3, 2014: Community Service Aid, K. Francisco, confiscates a bottle of vodka from Duane Toledo outside Downtown Lowes Thursday afternoon, before escorting Toledo into the CSA van.

Joshua Teller from McKinley County Fire and Rescue leads the hose through the remains of a house that caught fire off Crestview Road in Gallup Thursday. No one was inside of the house at the time and no injuries were reported from the fire.

GALLUP, NM - February 4, 2016: Joshua Teller from McKinley County Fire and Rescue leads the hose through the remains of a house that caught fire off Crestview Road in Gallup Thursday. No one was inside of the house at the time and no injuries were reported from the fire.

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Kevin Harvey, who discovered the body, sits on a rock outside the investigation waiting for Police Detectives to arrive at the scene in the field east of Dairy Queen North Tuesday morning.

GALLUP, NM - January 6, 2014: Kevin Harvey sits on a rock waiting to give his statement to police near where he discovered the body of a man frozen to death.

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WINSLOW, AZ - April 2, 2016: A tear rolls down the face of Desiree John, cousin to Loreal Tsingine at the Justice for Loreal vigil in from of the Winslow Police Department. Tsingine, 27, was shot an killed by Winslow police officer Austin Shipley on Easter Sunday March 27, 2016.

Marie Perry-Henio, President of the Smith Lake Chapter, stands in the Navajo Housing Authority community in Smith Lake that suffers massive damage on a regular basis due to it being in a food zone, Tuesday.

SMITH LAKE - February 23, 2016: Marie Perry-Henio, President of the Smith Lake Chapter, stands in the Navajo Housing Authority (NHA) community in Smith Lake. The NHA community was built in a known flood zone which causes multiple houses in the development to suffer massive water damage every year.

Roxanne Seoutewa, Zuni silversmith