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Powwow Class Gives Urban Native Families Space to Celebrate Culture

May 12, 2025
A man stands and speaks into a microphone, raising his hand, while seated individuals listen in a room with large windows and people standing in the background.

Niko DeRoin-Silva has been in the powwow arena since she could walk.   She was too young to remember that time, but relatives of hers speak about it fondly. Growing up in Northern California, away from her tribal community, dancing helped her feel connected.   “Sometimes we call it a coming out ceremony, where we give someone…

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‘the bomb’ Exhibit Shows the Horror of Nuclear Weapons

May 9, 2025
Multiple monitors arranged in a semicircle display repeated images of a nuclear explosion with a red-orange mushroom cloud against a dark background.

5.9.25 – A new exhibit called “the bomb” has opened at the University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library. The exhibit takes visitors through a series of images, archival footage and film clips documenting the unsettling history and uncertain future of the world’s most dangerous machine: nuclear weapons. KUNM News Director Megan Kamerick sits down with…

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