Klarissa Peña

A dirt lot with a portable fenced off near 60th Street and Central Avenue in Albuquerque is the site of the 2014 murders of two Navajo men. The city has purchased the property and is planning to move a Native-led nonprofit into the building. A long-awaited and much-discussed memorial may also be part of the plan after the city gathers more community input.

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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.

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