Tribal Affairs

Five tribal organizations in New Mexico will share over $146 million from the federal infrastructure act to improve broadband infrastructure. The largest award is going to the Santa Fe Indian School, which plans to use its $57 million to bridge the gap of internet access across several tribal communities around the state. KUNM talks with Kimball Sekaquaptewa, chief technology director, for the school about how helping a network of communities serves its mission to provide education to Native children.

As New Mexico redraws the district boundaries for its state legislature, U.S. House and Public Education Commission, pueblos across the state are…

Outside of their home in Bernalillo, N.M., 11-year-old Mililani Suina and her 8-year-old brother Marshall talk about some of their favorite foods from…

This story is produced by the Indigenous Investigative Collective , a project of the Native American Journalists Association in partnership with High…

U.S. Highway 550 runs from Montrose, Colo., to Bernailillo, N.M. If you drive all 300 miles of it, you'll weave in and out of tribal land more than a…

President Biden has laid out his vision for the future of public education, which includes a nationwide community college tuition waiver for all Americans…

Many tribal leaders are used to stretching every dollar that comes their way. Last year, they were faced with a different problem: millions in badly…

The Indian Child Welfare Act still stands, with some of its key provisions weakened by a sharply divided U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals this month.…

The Biden administration will restore the White House Council on Native American Affairs, an interagency initiative that coordinates federal services and…