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The US National Park Service has reported another act of vandalism to Native American rock art, this time in the biodiverse Big Bend National Park in Texas.

When tourists carve graffiti over Native rock art, archeologists do everything they can to remove it. But some of the damage is permanent.

Some idiots carved their names on prehistoric petroglyphs in Big Bend—and it's part of a disturbing spike in vandalism.

"With each instance of vandalism, part of our nations heritage is lost forever," Big Bend National Park Superintendent Bob Krumenaker said in a release.

Ski Apache opens from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. beginning Dec. 29.

Ski Apache opens from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. beginning Dec. 29.

Recent infighting within the Chiricahua Apache Nation has raised a fundamental question: Who can legitimately identify themselves as Chiricahua Apache? For the Oklahoma-based Fort Sill Apache Tribe, the answer is straightforward: Its membership is composed of the descendants of the Warm Springs band of Chiricahua who surrendered with Geronimo to the U.S. government in 1886. Of those Chiricahua, about half survived being relocated by the government as prisoners of war …

One analyst said the map would bring the adult Hispanic population in CD 2 to a little more than 56% — an increase of about 5%.

An updated proposal to redraw New Mexico’s congressional map cleared the state’s House of Representatives on Saturday evening, with Democrats arguing the redrawn political boundaries will bridge the state’s urban-rural divide. The House passed the bill in a 44-24 vote and is now headed to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s desk.

A map of voting districts that would make southern New Mexico an easier place for Democratic congressional candidates to get elected is heading to the Senate floor for a vote.