Rescinding Proclamations Offers no History Lesson
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On Indigenous Peoples Day, the governor rescinded four vintage proclamations from territorial governors. The news release called them “offensive.”
New Mexico’s governor on Monday voided four pre-statehood proclamations that targeted Native Americans during what was a tumultuous time across the western frontier as federal soldiers tried to defeat Navajos,
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham nullified four pre-statehood proclamations that targeted Native American tribes during the American frontier. These proclamations allowed citizens to kill Native Americans and declared them bandits.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham described the 19th century proclamations by former territorial governors as offensive