Discipline at Gallup Schools; Tribal Water Rights
This week on New Mexico in Focus, a new report from the state attorney general’s office finds Indigenous and Hispanic students are punished at Gallup McKinley County Schools far more severely than their white peers. The published findings follow an investigation from New Mexico In Depth in 2022 who first uncovered the story. In Depth Executive Director Trip Jennings sits down with Wendy Greyeyes, chair of the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, to discuss the report and consider how Gallup schools could reform their disciplinary actions.
The largest tribal water rights settlement in U.S. history is at a stalemate. The Northeastern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act, if approved by Congress, would provide much-needed water for the Navajo Nation, as well as the Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute tribes. A provision with the deal has received pushback from some negotiators at the table, questioning whether the Navajo Nation should be allowed to lease some of its water to nearby cities outside of its reservation. KUNM Reporter Jeanette DeDios speaks with Heather Tanana, an assistant law professor at the University of Denver, about the settlement’s many details and discusses how life-changing this deal would be if it went through.
Earlier this year, Santa Fe-based poet Arthur Sze accepted a second one-year term to continue his role as the 25th United States Poet Laureate. Senior Producer Lou DiVizio meets with Sze to talk about his work as a poet and a translator, as well as the relationship between his art and our state.
Host: Nash Jones
Segments:
Report: Disparity in Discipline at Gallup Schools
Correspondent: Trip Jennings
Guest: Dr. Wendy Greyeyes Ph.D. (Diné), Chair, Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission
Tribal Water Rights Deal Stalled
Correspondent: Jeanette DeDios (Jicarilla Apache and Diné)
Guest: Heather Tanana (Diné), Assistant Law Professor, University of Denver
How to Reform Student Discipline at Gallup Schools
Correspondent: Trip Jennings
Guest: Dr. Wendy Greyeyes Ph.D. (Diné), Chair, Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission
U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze on the Art of Translation
Correspondent: Lou DiVizio
Guest: Arthur Sze, 25th U.S. Poet Laureate