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NMiF discusses housing as a human right amid financial crisis during pandemic January 07, 2021
The COVID pandemic has thrown many people into financial crisis and has spotlighted how important adequate shelter is to health. This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick talks to law professor and housing advocate Serge Martinez about housing as a human right and how to stem the flood of evictions once the moratorium is lifted.
This month’s installment of Our Land looks back to an early 2020 conversation between correspondent Laura Paskus and Eugene Herrera, former governor of the Pueblo of Cochiti. Now, in 2021, Sen. Martin Heinrich’s plans to reintroduce a bill to change Bandelier National Monument into Bandelier National Park. While other northern New Mexico Pueblos support the measure, leaders at Cochiti still oppose it. Former governor Herrera tells why the people of Cochiti believe such a designation would damage spirit
Artists continually break boundaries.
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe is putting together an innovative exhibit scheduled to open on April 18.
“Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass,” examines how Native artists reinterpret cultural narratives and designs in new mediums.
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” ‘Clearly Indigenous’ is a groundbreaking new exhibition at MIAC that presents Native artists’ innovations in glass,” says MIAC Director Della Warrior (Otoe-Missouria). “By looking at the genesis of glass art throughout Indian Country – not just in the Southwest – the exhibition brings together a striking collection of work that tells a larger story about Indigenous cultural knowledge and artistic genius.”
ALBUQUERQUE, NM In-depth report released today by the Tribal Education Alliance (TEA) calls for a dramatic change in course to close the equity gap faced by Native children. The report says that New Mexico’s education system is unjust and inequitable, depriving Native children of important educational opportunities.
The TEA is a coalition of tribal education leaders, experts, and advocates, including the Leadership Institute at the Santa Fe Indian School and the University of New Mexico Native American Budget and Policy Institute.
“The state has a moral and legal obligation to transform education, which requires a shift in approach, not in rhetoric,” said Regis Pecos, Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute Co-Director and former Governor of Cochiti Pueblo. “The path we take after the landmark Yazzie/Martinez court decision will determine what future generations inherit from us. The struggle for the education of our children is a struggle for the survival of Indig