She was 86. She was born Mary Lynch on Apr. 17, 1938, in Dulce, her home for most of her life and the headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, of which she was a member.

the Jicarilla slipped off the radar and became the last tribe to avoid forced settlement onto an American Indian reservation. North America's Jicarilla Apache tribe cloaked themselves in trade, ...

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and Jicarilla Apache Nation President Adrian Notsinneh addressed a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives, as did Chairman for the All Pueblo ...

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 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 ...