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Left-wing activist and Avengers star Mark Ruffalo said on Friday that Native Americans are “marginalized” and “mistreated” in the “colonial system” of the United States. Ruffalo praised the passage of the America Rescue Act, marketed by Democrats and leftist news media as “coronavirus stimulus” and “COVID-19 relief” legislation in an interview with Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. Mark Ruffalo framed Native Americans as the “most marginalized [and] mistreated” p...

AC Swedbergh/AZPM The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday it set up the new Missing and Murdered Unit for American Indians and Alaska Natives to support interagency investigations. Cases of missing or murdered Indigenous peoples can cover multiple jurisdictions, such as federal, state, tribal. It has become a longstanding hurdle for solving these crimes. “Violence against Indigenous peoples is a crisis that has been underfunded for decades,”Secretary of the Interior Deb Haa...

New Mexico Tribes Sue US Over Federal Clean Water Rule - By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press Two Indigenous communities in New Mexico are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a revised federal rule that lifts protections for many streams, creeks and wetlands across the nation, saying the federal government is violating its trust responsibility to Native American tribes. The pueblos of Jemez and Laguna are the latest to raise concerns over inadequate protections for local wa...

New Mexico To Open Up Vaccine Eligibility Next Week – Associated Press New Mexico will be expanding vaccine eligibility next week to everyone 16 years of

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic Party leaders have picked state Rep. Melanie Stansbury as the nominee to defend an Albuquerque-based congressional seat left open by newly confirmed Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.

New Mexico To Open Up Vaccine Eligibility Next Week – Associated Press New Mexico will be expanding vaccine eligibility next week to everyone 16 years of age and older, state health officials said Wednesday. The federal government has directed states to make all adults eligible for COVID-19 vaccination by May 1. State Health Secretary Dr. Tracie Collins said New Mexico will be meeting that mark April 5. While the pace of vaccination has been limited by supply, Collins said federal officials ...

 President Joe Biden held his first Cabinet meeting on Thursday Cabinet officials were spread around East Room for social distancing Biden announced Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and four others will take the lead to selling his $2 trillion infrastructure plan Biden meeting in sharp contrast to those ran by Donald Trump Only Biden spoke and media only allowed in for a few minutes Trump would let all officials speak and they all spent the time praising him 

New Mexico Primed To Join US Recreational Pot Wave – Morgan Lee and Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press New Mexico’s Legislature has approved the

The Senate’s 51-40 vote underscored deep opposition from Republicans who worry Haaland’s criticism of fossil fuels means she will discourage oil development across hundreds of millions of acres of federal land under the Interior Department’s control.