'Ahead of her time': Groundbreaking Jicarilla Apache journalist dies at 86
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 ...
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Governor signs bill protecting Native American students’ right to wear tribal regalia
Native American students in New Mexico will be able to wear their tribal regalia at graduation ceremonies this spring after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill into law on Wednesday.
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The high cost of fixing Lake Tahoe: Famed alpine lake still murky after decades of efforts
CalMatters: Billions of state and federal dollars are spent on Lake Tahoe. But is all this attention actually protecting this ...
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Mary Francis Polanco
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 ...
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A fighter for Indigenous journalism has passed
Mary Frances Polanco, Jicarilla Apache, founder and first treasurer of the Indigenous Journalist Association (formerly the Native American Journalists Association). (Photo courtesy of Mary Frances ...
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State delegation asks for more funds to cover Navajo-Gallup water project after inflation cost jump
As part of an Indigenous water rights settlement, the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project is projected to deliver a mammoth volume of water to tribal communities, including more than 40 Navajo ...