By Bella Davis, New Mexico In Depth This is the latest story from Indigenously Positive, a collaborative series by New Mexico…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
Amid fears about ICE, lawmakers consider optional Native American designation on IDs
As reports come out across the country of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining Native Americans, a couple dozen New…