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Tribal Leaders Battle COVID and Honoring Native American Heritage

November 30, 2020
A collection of produce including tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, and more.

This week on New Mexico in Focus… honoring Native American Heritage month with a celebration of native resilience and innovation. Correspondent Antonia Gonzales interviews tribal leaders and the Secretary of Indian Affairs about the surge of COVID-19 cases across New Mexico. The pandemic has hit Indigenous communities especially hard, and more recently the situation has…

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Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Reading: First Morning (For Shan)

November 24, 2020
Portrait of Joy Harjo with label "First Morning (for Shan)".

November 27, 2020 – Joy Harjo is the nation’s first ever native American Poet Laureate. And just this month, she was appointed to a third term beginning of September 2021. Harjo is only the second poet to be honored with a third term. In this clip, she talks about the story behind her poem “The…

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