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Jeneda Benally

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Jeneda Benally is the bassist and co-vocalist alongside her brothers in in the Navajo punk rock band Blackfire.[1] Besides her duties in the band, she is an activist for various causes. Not only has she been a Miss Flagstaff Indian Days Powwow Princess, she is also a national Native American Honor Roll Society member, a spokeswoman for the Navajo Nation Tribal Employee Program, and one of the founders of the Indigenous Youth Network. Jeneda is also a storyteller, actress, model, artist, jewelry maker, and dancer of many Native dances.[2] She has one daughter.

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