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Slavery in New Mexico, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Movement, The Line
This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick talks with two scholars at the University of New Mexico about a delicate subject – slavery. Slavery was common in the Southwest, especially in our state. Native Americans were captured and sold to Hispanic families, a practice that continued up to and beyond the Civil…
Read MoreInternment Camps and the Immigration Debate, “Molly of Denali” Producer Has New Mexico Ties, The Line
This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with Nikki Nojima Louis, who was among 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in camps across the West during World War II. Nojima Louis now lives in Albuquerque and works with the New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League, creating plays based on the oral histories…
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