By Bella Davis | New Mexico In Depth New Mexico needs to establish more thorough regulations for uranium mining before it’s too late, opponents of …
‘An overstep’: Navajo Code Talker descendants criticize state’s new plan for museum
By Bella Davis | New Mexico In Depth For decades, Navajo Code Talkers and their descendants have dreamed of an expansive museum on the Navajo …
Mescalero Apache teens are building wildfire and flood sensors to protect their community
By Bella Davis, New Mexico In Depth This is the latest story from Indigenously Positive, a collaborative series by New Mexico In Depth and NMPBS. Both …
Yazzie/Martinez plaintiffs ask to rewrite education reform plan themselves
Fed up with the state’s repeated failures to fix an education system that a court found in 2018 was failing most of New Mexico’s students, …
Education department pushes back on plaintiffs’ call to scrap reform plan
The state Public Education Department is asking a state judge to keep its court-ordered plan for improving education for at-risk students and deny a request …
Tribal libraries fill critical gaps in communities, despite limited staff
Growing up in Zuni Pueblo in northwest New Mexico, Valarie Bellson remembers walking to the tribe’s public library when she needed a place to hang …
Students connect science with culture through new curriculum
The students giggled as they threw bread dough against a table they were gathered around and began to knead it. Nearby, other kids opened canned …
Tribes, plaintiffs ask judge to reject state’s education reform plan
The Public Education Department should throw out its court-ordered plan for remedying inequities in how the majority of public school students in New Mexico are …
New Mexico Senate calls for study of forced sterilization
By Bella Davis, New Mexico In Depth As she was being sedated for a procedure following a miscarriage many years ago, Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero was …