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Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Jodie Herrera devours issues of social justice, then splashes them onto wood and walls in symbolic portraits. The Taos artist shows her work at Santa Fe’s KEEP Contemporary, at galleries in Denver, and on walls and windows in Downtown Albuquerque, as well as at jodieherrera.com. Jodie Herrera: “Stay Safe,” oil on wood, 18×24 inches. (Courtesy of the artist) The pandemic inspired many artists to create during quarantine. For Herrera, a different illne...

People bring their gangly quarter horse colts to Bubba Werner to transform into winners. Now and again, he does.

Diabetes rates have been worsened by systemic inequities, but health leaders hope an understanding of tribes' cultures will help reverse the trend.

‘Firefighters Out There in the Snow’: Wildfires Rage Early in Parched West Firefighters in New Mexico, Arizona and California are battling springtime blazes that have been fueled by a severe drought and boosted by climate change. A fire sparked in the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico on Monday continued to burn throughout the week, despite rain, light snow and the efforts of fire crews.Credit...USDA Forest Service, via Associated Press April 30, 2021 RUIDOSO, N.M. — New Mexico’s fi...

Native American tribes have long struggled with high rates of diabetes. COVID made the problem even more urgent. Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY © Inés Ixierda Sogorea Te Land Trust Quail Creek community garden Heather Mars-Martins and her family would dive off the coast of Westerly, Rhode Island, to catch quahogs, clams native to the eastern shores long foraged by her Narragansett tribe. Mars-Martins and her family would swim back up to their canoes and head home to make traditio...

Views 391 What is no one spoke English anymore? What if it was illegal to celebrate Christmas? What if a new race of people decided to invade America and force Americans out of their homes? This was what happened to Native Americans during America’s Westward Expansion. Native American culture disappeared because America’s westward expansion forced them out of their homeland, disease and violence killed millions of them, and new laws gave them no rights. Life in the Western Hemisphere was mu...

LAS CRUCES - The capital outlay bill signed last week by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham includes more than $28 million in funding for projects in Doña Ana County, as well as millions for other projects in southern New Mexico. The bill funds more than $511 million in projects throughout the state, including roughly $64 million for water and wastewater improvements, $53 million for roads, $49 million for higher education, $48 million for public safety and $8 million for acequias, dams, and ditches....

LAS CRUCES - The capital outlay bill signed last week by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham includes more than $28 million in funding for projects in Dona Ana County, as well as millions for other projects in southern New Mexico. The bill funds more than $511 million in projects throughout the state, including roughly $64 million for water and wastewater improvements, $53 million for roads, $49 million for higher education, $48 million for public safety and $8 million for acequias, dams and ditches. ...

Case Writers-in-Residence presented virtually April 8 Office of University Relations, Western Illinois University MACOMB — The Western Illinois University Department of English will host the Fred Ewing Case and Lola Case Writers-in-Residence, in a virtual format, Thursday, April 8. This years writers include Jennifer Militello, Crisosto Apache and Marianne Boruch. A question and answer session will be held over Zoom from 3-4 p.m. To obtain the link, email English Professor Erika Wurth at ET-W...

March 16, 2021 MACOMB, IL -- The Western Illinois University Department of English will host the Fred Ewing Case and Lola Case Writers-in-Residence, in a virtual format, Thursday, April 8. This years writers include Jennifer Militello, Crisosto Apache and Marianne Boruch. A question and answer session will be held over Zoom from 3-4 p.m. To obtain the link, email English Professor Erika Wurth at ET-Wurth@wiu.edu. A reading by the authors will be streamed through the WIU English departm...