As Native American American Heritage month is underway, advocates and child welfare experts are collaborating to introduce a bill to the 2021 New Mexico Legislative Session to codify the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) into state law. The New Mexico Tribal Indian Child Welfare Consortium (NMTIC), New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department (NM CYFD), [...]

Angel Charley, acting co-executive director of the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native American Women, gave a siren call for Indigenous issues Sunday during a meeting of women’s groups. Charley was the keynote speaker for the New Mexico American Association of University Women Chapter (AAUW), the League of Women Voters and the National Organization for [...]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico mother is creating a series of photos to raise awareness for a problem she too, has been personally affected by: missing and murdered indigenous women. “Other people are going through this just as I have,” Meredith Lee-Mike. Lee-Mike took the photos that show three young Native American women [...]