New Mexico makes sweeping investments in tribal communities in 2021
$58 million to go towards projects in tribal communities
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$58 million to go towards projects in tribal communities
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State of New Mexico Indian Affairs Department
New Mexico Indian Affairs Cabinet Secretary Lynn Trujillo announced another year of sweeping investments for tribal communities on Wednesday. The Indian Affairs Department received $49 million in direct capital outlay funds that will go to 148 projects in tribal communities. An additional $9 million will go to 26 projects in tribal communities through other state agencies. Capital outlay investments made into tribal communities this year will be used to fund projects including the development of makerspaces for economic development, public safety complexes, early childhood centers, and water and broadband infrastructure.
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The Indian Health Service has delivered coronavirus vaccine doses to the most far-flung corners of the country. From remote villages in Alaska to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Indigenous Americans as young as 16 have had access to the shot for weeks.
But some urban Native people haven t been so lucky. Count 55-year-old Jonathan Concha of Albuquerque among them. For the most part, everybody else in my family has been vaccinated already. So, I m the last one, he said just after receiving his first shot in mid-March.
Concha scored a spot at a mass-vaccination event co-hosted by New Mexico s Indian Affairs Department, Albuquerque s urban Indian health clinic, and several other partners . But this came after two months of roadblocks.
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Pandemic aid helps New Mexico tribe fix damaged adobe homes
TEYA VITU, Santa Fe New Mexican
April 3, 2021
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1of8This March 30, 2021 image shows Santo Domingo Pueblo Gov. Sidelio Tenorio speaking among tribal leaders in front of the newly-rebuilt adobe home of Diane Garcia at Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico. It s the first home completed in a new housing initiative to rebuild or restore more than 150 traditional adobe buildings within the pueblo. (Matt Dahlseid/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)Matt Dahlseid/APShow MoreShow Less
2of8This March 30, 2021 image shows Joyce Zamora, center, walking through her home at Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico, seeing it for the first time since work began on rebuilding the traditional adobe structure that had been damaged by storms. Work has just begun on rebuilding and restoring more than 150 traditional adobe homes in the pueblo. (Matt Dahlseid/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)Matt Dahlseid/APShow MoreShow Less
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