Bella Davis

New Mexico created a new alert earlier this year to help find Native people who go missing. But since the Turquoise Alert went into effect in July, New Mexico State Police have only issued six, despite 27 requests from local law enforcement agencies, incl... See more

A state judge on Monday gave Yazzie/Martinez plaintiffs extra time to file objections to a court-ordered Public Education Department plan to better serve public school students. The plaintiffs in the long-running education equity lawsuit had until Monday ... See more

Decades ago, a medical emergency brought Jean Whitehorse to an Indian Health Service facility in Gallup. There, she says, she was coerced into signing a form for a procedure she later learned left her unable to have more children. Whitehorse (Navajo) is o... See more

Fewer Native Americans own their own homes compared to New Mexicans as a whole, and the state must help close that gap, members of the Southwest Indigenous Housing Justice Collaborative told lawmakers at a recent legislative hearing. Without “aggressive i... See more

Indigenous education experts and advocates are outraged over the state’s draft action plan for improving education, which they say lacks detail and fails to meaningfully incorporate community input. “We may be stuck with something that is unconscionable” ... See more