Tribal Affairs

Land grant universities across the U.S. earn over $2.2B annually from oil and gas extraction on lands that were taken from Indigenous tribes. That includes New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. But, tribes almost never see a penny of it. That’s one of the recent findings of an investigation by environmental news outlet Grist.

In the pueblo of Laguna on September 8, officials held a small ceremony to celebrate a grant of more than $9 million which officials said would help pay for nearly 200 miles of cable, serving 1500 homes.

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…