Gov. Kathy Hochul calls herself the first mom governor of New York. I am also a mother. I have lived my entire life on my homelands of the Tuscarora Nation in Haudenosaunee Country, aka New York State.

Rene Rickard-Printup is a lifelong resident of the Tuscarora Nation and delegate to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force.

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