/tags/amber-crotty Amber Crotty en-US Copyright Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:07:23 GMT /local-news/2023-07-03/federal-commissioners-come-to-albuquerque-to-hear-from-families-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-people Native people are at disproportionate risk of experiencing violence, being murdered or going missing. In 2020, Congress passed a law called the Not Invisible Act to try to stop this. It was written by Deb Haaland, then a representative and now the first Indigenous secretary of the Interior Department. She promised the government would listen to Native people. A federal commission is now listening to families searching for lost loved ones. Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:07:23 GMT /local-news/2023-07-03/federal-commissioners-come-to-albuquerque-to-hear-from-families-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-people Jeanette DeDios /2022-03-10/as-mmiwg-crisis-continues-navajo-nation-calls-for-emergency-911 In the wake of a congressional hearing on the disproportionate rate of BIPOC women and girls who go missing in the U.S., a representative of the Navajo Nation connects the crisis there to the lack of a modern 911 system. Thu, 10 Mar 2022 23:25:01 GMT /2022-03-10/as-mmiwg-crisis-continues-navajo-nation-calls-for-emergency-911 Emma Gibson /public-health-new-mexico/2015-08-10/navajo-council-criticizes-animas-disaster-response The Navajo Nation Council met on Monday, Aug. 10, to talk about impacts from the more than 3-million-gallon toxic spill into the Animas River. "This is an… Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:09:11 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2015-08-10/navajo-council-criticizes-animas-disaster-response Marisa Demarco