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Our Story Continues
ᎠᏤᏨᏏ ᎤᎦᎶᎦ ᎠᎪᏘ
a-tse-tsv-si u-ga-lo-ga a-go-ti
Honoring his ancestors, Arlo named
this clinic Red Root after one of his favorite Cherokee herbs — a plant that
cleanses and heals the blood. Red Root connects our collective Indigenous
community to the medicines and the peoples this clinic exists to serve. We are
rooted as Indigenous People, to our mother and to our medicines.
Just as red root cleanses the blood,
we are called to cleanse our own blood — of erasure, of intergenerational
trauma, of lateral violence, of every impurity that no longer serves us.
Memory is alive in our blood.
Two hearts, four hands
We met in acupuncture school — two
healpers with a shared vision that access to good medicine is deserved by
everyone. In 2011, we fell in love, and our hearts and hands joined forces.
Together we dreamed of bridging the gaps in our healthcare system, especially
for our underserved Native and Indigenous people, and our high-risk, LGBTQIA,
and marginalized communities — and of creating medicine that is affordable,
informed, accessible, and culturally rooted.
Since 2012, we have practiced that
vision from our clinic on Rio Grande in Albuquerque, blending traditional New
Mexican, Indigenous, and Chinese medicine. For me, this work began long before
any classroom. I was raised with these medicines — walking in the footsteps of
my grandmothers and Nanas — and have worked with traditional medicines since
early childhood, professionally since 1999. We grow and harvest many of our own
herbs and make our medicines by hand, always remembering those whose hands
guided us.
Arlo walked on suddenly in 2020. His
spirit lives in every part of Red Root, every remedy, and every act of care
that moves through this clinic. Red Root continues in his honor, and in our
mission to be here for community.
Medicine belongs in community
Red Root is a place made by
community, to help fill the needs of community. That truth carries us beyond
the clinic walls. We offer free acupuncture to our community every week. We help
teach and equip street medics with herbal and traditional medicine to care for
our unhoused relatives — and every donation this program receives, we regift
back to community. We donate many medicines and much care to families in need.
Teaching is medicine too
Dr. Arlo taught Cherokee language, NADA acu-detox, seed-saving, and classes on herbs and more. He shared this work with the Tribal Canoe Journeys, the UNM Curanderismo Program, and in community with the Chiapas and Juarez Mexico, Quacuu Aloom Rabinal, Guatemala, Navajo Nation Pueblos of Acoma and Tesuque.
Dr. Lucero's teaching spans Traditional Chinese Medicine, acu-detox, curanderismo, and traditional medicines — limpias, sobadas, ventosas, moxa, ear candling, herbal medicine, medicine-making/remedios from soap/candle making to salves and honey pills; traditional birthing practices; food sovereignty, nutrition/cooking classes, seed-saving; and storytelling as medicines. Her work was been shared with the UNM Curanderismo Program, the UNM AMORE Midwifery Program, ASHA School of Massage,the Cedar School of Midwifery, Explora and PBS Kids, GONA, Rancho del Las Golondrinas, and in community with the Navajo Nation, Quacuu Aloom Rabinal, Guatemala and the Pueblos of San Felipe, Santa Ana, Tesuque, Acoma, Laguna, Jemez, and more.
Together and apart, our work with Indigenous communities extends throughout the Americas and internationally.
Held by many hands
We are endlessly grateful for our Roots Crew/staff, Practitioners, our friends, our patients and our community — all the hands that have helped keep Red Root strong especially after Arlo's passing. Red Root's growth has been a community effort. Everyone has had a hand in carrying us through grief, through COVID, through every hardship these times have laid upon us. We are still here because of you. In Community Medicine we help carry each-other.
Today, we continue our mission
through the loving hands of our current practitioners. We invite you to get to
know them — → meet our practitioners.
And we are held each day by our wonderful staff, who care for our community
with warmth and patience, helping people find what they need and meeting them
in a truly human way — putting the kind, and the human, back in humankind.
We are medicine with deep roots — grown in this soil, carried through generations, and
offered with love.