Very important. New but short comment period regarding revocation of 10 mile “withdrawal” around a beautiful #NewMexico location, #ChacoCanyon. the site is sacred to multiple tribes and is geologically significant for all. Anybody may comment.

Go to the BLM Register and say you oppose revocation of the 10 mile withdrawal around Chaco Canyon. Start at the “Participate” button, top left of page. See screenshot 👇

An abandoned cross in a cholla cactus next to the Santa Rosa de Lima church ruins (1734), New Mexico.

#Desert #Church #Cactus #NewMexico #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Travel #Roadtrip #Photography #Darktable

In 2023, New Mexico’s AG ordered an investigation into one school district after ProPublica and New Mexico In Depth revealed Native students were expelled more often than any other group.

The investigation confirmed “substantial racial disparities.”
propublica.org/article/new-mex…

#News #NewMexico #Law #School #Education #Indigenous #Children

New Mexico AG Calls for School Reform in Gallup-McKinley County — ProPublica

The state’s attorney general launched an investigation after reporting by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica exposed high rates of harsh punishment for Native American and Hispanic children in Gallup-McKinley County Schools.

^{Trip Jennings (ProPublica)}

Deb Haaland's life reads like it shouldn't have led to Washington, DC.

She struggled with alcoholism and got sober in 1988. She was a single mom who relied on food stamps and started a salsa company to get by. She went to college at 28, law school at 40.

Then she became one of the first two Native American women in Congress. Then the first Native American Cabinet secretary in US history, leading the Interior Department. She launched the first federal investigation into Indian boarding schools, protected millions of acres of public land, and brought tribes to the decision-making table.

Now she's running for governor of New Mexico. If elected, she'd be the first Native American woman governor in US history.

A 35th-generation New Mexican and member of the Pueblo of Laguna, she just published her memoir 'A Voice Like Mine.'

Representation isn't symbolic. It changes who gets a seat at the table.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Haal…

#Indigenous #NewMexico #representation

American politician (born 1960)

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NEW: Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.

Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.
propublica.org/article/colorad…

#Colorado #NewMexico #Utah #Wyoming #Native #Indigenous #Water #River

Deal for Native American Tribes’ Rights to Colorado River Water Stalled by Four States — ProPublica

^{Sharon Chischilly (ProPublica)}