Bella Davis
Position: New Mexico In Depth

Missing in New Mexico Day set for Saturday in Shiprock

FBI: There are 197 Native Americans missing from New Mexico and the Navajo Nation

At least 95 Indigenous children died in federal boarding schools in New Mexico

At least 3,500 children from dozens of tribal nations attended New Mexico schools

State budget includes $200,000 for new MMIP task force

The missing and murdered Indigenous people task force’s fate now falls to Gov. Lujan Grisham and A.G. Torrez

Lawmakers want attorney general to create new task force on missing and murdered Indigenous people

Task force members decried the governor’s disbanding of their group last year

Lawmakers again push for more tribal control over how Indigenous children are educated

State and federal control over education funding has limited tribes’ ability to teach their children