KUNM News Update
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As Native Americans across the U.S. come together on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day to celebrate their history and culture and acknowledge the ongoing challenges they face, many will do so with a focus on the election.
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New Mexico In Depth
The public won’t be allowed to make comments at a state-run meeting this week about a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
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Let's Talk New Mexico
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 should have given Native Americans the right to vote, but in New Mexico and other states it took decades more to materialize, and some of the same challenges to Natives voting are still present today. On the next Let's Talk New Mexico we'll discuss barriers to Natives voting and the political power their votes represent.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has committed to cleaning up seven uranium mining sites east of Gallup. -
More that 730 people so far have registered to vote under the new voting provisions concerning felony convictions, according to the New Mexico secretary of state's office. -
The race for New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District is not close, but both candidates make their cases forcefully. -
With AI tools more readily available than ever before, the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office has been working to head off election disinformation that may be hard to spot. It hasn't seen any so far this season. -
Nearly 9,000 New Mexicans cast a ballot on the first day of early voting Tuesday, which election officials called a historic turnout.
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