Posts by Myah Wilmarth
Contradictions of NM’s Colonial Past
October 16, 2020 – Correspondent Russell Contreras speaks with Vanessa Fonseca Chávez, a New Mexico native who is now an assistant professor at Arizona State. She is co-editor of the book “Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland,” and as a Chicana who is critical of monuments to Spanish conquistadors, she has also worked on…
Read MoreActivists Pull Down Controversial Santa Fe Monument
October 16, 2020 – Gene Grant and The Line opinion panelists debate the handling of a controversial monument in Santa Fe’s Plaza. Ongoing angst over the Civil War-era memorial culminated in the obelisk’s destruction on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Activists have been seeking the monument’s removal for years, objecting to an inscription that described Native communities…
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