Posts by Myah Wilmarth
MMIW Crisis Elevated, Key CD1 Candidates
This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Antonia Gonzales talks with two local advocates about the national attention given to the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis. President Biden declared Thursday, May 6, to be Missing and Murdered Indigenous People’s Awareness Day. His new interior secretary, former New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland, is a member of the Laguna Pueblo…
Read MoreBiden’s Tribal Affairs Adviser, NM’s population problems, and Civil Rights After Chauvin
This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Antonia Gonzales speaks with President Biden’s top tribal affairs adviser, PaaWee Rivera. The son of former Pojoaque Pueblo Governor George Rivera is working to advance Native interests as tribal communities emerge from the pandemic. A group of leading civil rights attorneys gathers for a discussion of the…
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