Bella Davis

New Mexico PBS and New Mexico in Depth are collaborating on a new series highlighting Indigenous joy while also discussing challenges like how Native Americans are portrayed in the media.

There are 194 Indigenous people listed as missing from New Mexico and the Navajo Nation on a portal run by the state Department of Justice. But click on any entries and you'll mostly just find info like age, sex, and the agency the person was reported to. There are no photos attached to any of the entries.

The public won’t be allowed to make comments at a state-run meeting this week about a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

The June killing of a 17-year-old Mescalero Apache boy by an Otero County sheriff’s deputy has sparked protests and demands for Deputy Jacob Diaz-Austin to be criminally charged.

Five New Mexico lawmakers want the state attorney general to establish a task force focused on missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced earlier this month the appointment of the former governor of Pueblo de San Ildefonso James R. Mountain to lead the state’s Department of Indian Affairs. As he awaits confirmation by the state Senate in the remaining weeks of the legislative session, New Mexico In Depth’s Bella Davis reports Indigenous women leaders are fighting his nomination.

Eight years after the murders of two Indigenous men at a lot on Albuquerque’s westside, the city appears poised to make something meaningful of the site. Bella Davis (Yurok Tribe), Indigenous affairs reporter with New Mexico In Depth, spoke with KUNM about her reporting on what happened there and what’s to come.