ICT Mary Frances Polanco, Jicarilla Apache, founder and first treasurer of the Indigenous Journalists Association passed away on Friday, March 6, 2025, in her hometown of Dulce, New Mexico. She was 86 ...

her home for most of her life and the headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, of which she was a member. She was educated at the Santa Fe Indian boarding school.

A nomadic tribe pushed into New Mexico by frontier settlement, the Jicarilla slipped off the radar and became the last tribe to avoid forced settlement onto an American Indian reservation. North ...

Born in Dulce, N.M., on April 17, 1938, Mary Francis Polanco went peacefully home to the Lord on March 7, 2025. Mary resided in Dulce, the headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, which she was a ...

Mary Frances Polanco, Jicarilla Apache, founder and first treasurer ... came together at Penn State University to form the American Indian Journalist Association, which later became the Native ...

Mary Francis Polanco, a lifelong journalist, will be remembered for her tenacity, her vision as a documentarian and her role in founding the Indigenous Journalists Association. Polanco, who founded ...