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FILE- New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs one of a suite of education bills that will increase teacher salaries and benefits on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Santa Fe, N.M. On Thursday, March 3, 2022, Grisham signed a bill, sponsored by state Rep. Derrick Lente, of the Sandia Pueblo, that will set a minimum salary for teachers certified to teach eight tribal languages taught in public schools and spoken by members of the state's 23 tribes and pueblos. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)
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Tribes get advisory role in utility regulation

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Researchers fitted this Mexican gray wolf with a radio collar in 2018. They estimate about two dozen Mexican gray wolf packs live in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of Jenna Miller, Cronkite News)
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Protections sought for coyotes in Mexican wolf territory

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Slate of New Mexico regulatory candidates sparks concern

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In this Nov. 21, 1996, photo, tourists cast their shadows on the ancient Anasazi ruins of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
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Approval of oil leases near Chaco prompts legal challenge

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Pictured: Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visits Yellowstone National Park in August 2021.
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Native youth to be tapped for conservation projects

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This photo provided by the Trust for Public Land shows the L Bar Ranch on Dec. 9, 2021 near Mount Taylor, adjacent to the Marquez StateWildlife Area, N.M. A national conservation group has acquired the sprawling ranch near a New Mexico mountain peak held sacred by Native American tribes. The Trust for Public Land announced Thursday, June 2, 2022 that land managers will be able create New Mexico's largest state-owned recreation property, near Mount Taylor. (Dave Cox/Mountain Media via AP)
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Volcanic cones near peak sacred to tribes gain protection

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visits the Grand Junction Air Center Complex on Friday to discuss her agency's response to wildfires and the Bureau of Land Management headquarters move to Grand Junction on Friday, July 23, 2021, in Grand Junction, Colo. (McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)
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US panel to focus on Native missing, slain cases

By Susan Montoya Bryan, AP Writer and Felicia Fonseca, AP Writer
A pinyon jay. (Photo courtesy of Defenders of Wildlife Facebook)
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Protections sought for bird linked to piñon forests

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In this Nov. 21, 1996, photo, tourists cast their shadows on the ancient Anasazi ruins of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
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Native leaders push for Chaco area protections

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FILE - In this May 4, 2016 photo, Klandre Willie, left, and her mother, Jaycelyn Blackie, participate in a candlelight vigil in Lower Fruitland, New Mexico, for Ashlynne Mike, who was abducted and left to die in a remote spot on the Navajo Nation. Members of a congressional panel focused on civil rights and liberties shared sobering statistics Thursday, March 3, 2022, on the disproportionate number of Indigenous, Black and other minority women and girls who are missing in the United States, saying more needs to be done to tackle the problem. (Jon Austria/The Daily Times via AP, File)
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Navajo ads highlight unsolved homicide, missing person cases

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Researchers fitted this Mexican gray wolf with a radio collar in 2018. They estimate about two dozen Mexican gray wolf packs live in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of Jenna Miller, Cronkite News)
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Growth slows for endangered Mexican gray wolf population

By Susan Montoya Bryan, AP Writer
In this July 31, 2021 photo, a boat cruises along Lake Powell near Page, Ariz. The elevation of Lake Powell fell below 3,525 feet (1,075 meters), a record low that surpasses a critical threshold at which officials have long warned signals their ability to general hydropower is in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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US to boost water supplies hit by climate change

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The Citadel Ruins are the remains of Anasazi cliff dwellings in the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. The Citadel is one of an estimated 100,000 sites in the monument spanning some 12,500 years. (Photo credit: Bob Wick / Bureau of Land Management, Courtesy of Creative Commons)
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US looks to boost cooperation with tribes on land management

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki, left, and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, participate in a press briefing at the White House, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Proposal to nix derogatory term targets hundreds sites

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Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. (Photo via Creative Commons/Thechief500)
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Tribes concerned about plan to power nuclear lab

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Deb Haaland seeks to rid US of derogatory place names

By Susan Montoya Bryan, AP Writer
In this Nov. 21, 1996, photo, tourists cast their shadows on the ancient Anasazi ruins of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
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US: Oil, gas leases on hold around Chaco park

By Susan Montoya Bryan, AP Writer
In this Nov. 21, 1996, photo, tourists cast their shadows on the ancient Anasazi ruins of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
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Tribal leaders seek hearing on drilling dispute

By Susan Montoya Bryan, AP Writer
A makeshift memorial for the dozens of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school that was once located nearby is growing under a tree at a public park in Albuquerque, N.M., Thursday, July 1, 2021. Indigenous activists are concerned that a plaque that noted the site of the burial ground was removed in recent days. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Work aims to uncover history of boarding school burial site

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In this April 2006, file photo, is the Four Corners Power Plant in Waterflow, N.M., near the San Juan River in northwestern New Mexico. The Navajo Nation would expand its investment in coal-fired electricity generation as part of a plan announced Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, to acquire more shares in one of the Southwest's last remaining coal power plants. The Navajo Transitional Energy Co. has negotiated an agreement in which Public Service Co. of New Mexico would divest from the Four Corners Power Plant in 2024 with the tribal company taking over PNM's 13% share. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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Panel considers future of coal-fired power plant

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The sun sets behind oilfield pumpjacks in the Bakken Formation in  Williston Basin in North Dakota on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018. (Photo by Larry MacDougal via AP; file photo)
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Recommendations target US oil, gas leasing

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The Native American Women's Color Guard salutes as members of the Sicangu Youth Council help provide a formal burial on July 17, 2021, at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Veteran's Cemetery for six ancestors who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880s. The remains were finally returned to the homelands after 140 years, wrapped in buffalo robe bundles and placed in cedar boxes. (Photo by Vi Waln for Indian Country Today)
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Legal group backs review of US boarding schools

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This July 8, 2021 image of a photograph archived at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, shows a group of Indigenous students who attended the Ramona Industrial School in Santa Fe. The late 19th century image is among many in the Horatio Oliver Ladd Photograph Collection that are related to the boarding school. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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A monumental task

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Stimulus funds targeted to fight crime

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Fed crackdown puts tribal artifact dealers on edge

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N.M. tribe works to restore sacred spring

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Study looks at early Navajo use of smoke signals

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