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Native Americans shrug off Depp’s Tonto as farce Leaders, artists say little ties film to Indian Country — too little to find offense
By Robert Nott The New Mexican
Following a recent screening of The Lone Ranger, a moviegoer asked Native American filmmaker Chris Eyre if he was offended by Johnny Depp’s portrayal of the Comanche character Tonto. “I couldn’t answer the question,” Eyre said. “I mean, what’s Native American about Tonto? I don’t know how I can be
offended by a character that is not representative of Native Americans. It’s Hollywood’s invention of a Native American. It’s a farce, and his character is a farce character.” Disney’s version of The Lone Ranger — produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Depp as Tonto and Armie
Hammer as the title character — opened Wednesday to mostly poor reviews and a disappointing box-office take. The picture took in about $19.5 million Wednesday and Thursday, compared to Despicable Me 2’s first-place take of $58 million over those two days. In gauging the reaction of regional Native American leaders and artists to the film, it’s clear
that some are taking it for the goofy piece of entertainment it is meant to be, while others are disturbed or disillusioned by the picture’s depiction of Comanche culture in the Old West. “I wouldn’t say it’s high art, but they [the filmmakers] are pretty damn good at what they do,” said Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho), who is chairman of the film department at
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‘Dreamers’ put faces on nation’s broken immigration system
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A firetruck sprays Asiana Flight 214 after it crashed in San Francisco on Saturday. NOAH BERGER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Landing ‘too low, too soon’
Two deaths reported as Asiana plane crashes in San Francisco By Maeve Reston, Lee Romney and Laura J. Nelson Los Angeles Times
Alejandra Gomez, who is living in the U.S. illegally, turns to Sen. Martin Heinrich, right, during an immigration rally May 1 in Las Cruces. ‘I just want you to know this is not a joke,’ Gomez told Heinrich, after discussing her brothers’ deportations. HEATH HAUSSAMEN/NEW MEXICO IN DEPTH
By Heath Haussamen New Mexico In Depth
LAS CRUCES tanding before a crowd of more than 500 people and several television crews, Alejandra Gomez choked up. The 22-year-old immigrant, a Mexican citizen living in the United States without legal status, wept as she spoke about the two empty chairs at family gatherings. Some in the crowd at the May 1 immigration rally in Las Cruces cried with Gomez as she described the hole in her heart left by the deportations of her brothers — Reymundo, 22, and Julio, 20. The men were deported last year after being
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arrested for stealing scrap metal. They’re being deported again after they were caught earlier this year trying to re-enter the U.S. illegally. The rally, sponsored by the faith-based immigrants-rights group Comunidades en Acción y de Fé (Communities in Action and Faith, or CAFÉ), was designed to shift public and political opinion in favor of immigration reform that would grant legal status to most or all of the estimated 11 million people living in the United States without proper documentation. A number of political and religious leaders attended the event. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, who sat behind Gomez on stage, told New Mexico In Depth after the rally that reform wouldn’t help
Gomez’s brothers because of their criminal backgrounds. Her brothers aren’t bad people — they were just trying to make ends meet, Gomez responded in an interview. She said she tells her brothers’ story as a way to keep hope alive. During the rally, Gomez said it was a mistake for her brothers to take metal from property they thought was abandoned. She said they tried to come back to the U.S. to flee drug dealers in Ciudad Juárez who had threatened to kill them if they refused to sell drugs. Toward the end of her speech, Gomez turned to Heinrich, a Democrat who has been
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By Julie Ann Grimm The New Mexican
u North comes out on top of Pecos League All-Star Game.
Baseball fans who want to drink beer while they cheer for the Santa Fe Fuego would no longer be segregated from others attending games at the Fort Marcy Ballpark, if the city governing body approves a proposed rule change. City Councilor Ron Trujillo and Mayor David Coss say it’s time to rethink a city policy that calls for a separate “beer garden” during Pecos League games. The Fuego is one of eight teams that make up the semi-professional league in New Mexico, Texas and Colorado. Now midway through its second season in Santa Fe, organizers say, the team draws some of the largest crowds in the league. Trujillo has never been shy about
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A fence separates the beer garden at the Fort Marcy Ballpark from the covered seating area. A city proposal would allow beer sales in all areas of the grandstand for Fuego games.
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Santa Fe, July 3 Susana Corine Bret N. Courtney, 42, Salazar, 87, July 4 Lubbock, Texas, June 24 Gloria Booth Ulibarri, Louise Marshall 87, July 1 Lechner, 64, Santa Fe, Cora R. Vigil, 104, June 30 Santa Fe, July 3 David R. Leyba, 72, July 1 John Zoltai, 96, Mary Kuelthau Mackintosh, 80, June 16 Los Alamos, June 28 Patricia A. Romero, PAgEs C-2, C-3
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SAN FRANCISCO — An Asiana Airlines jetliner crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing two and injuring more than 180, as screaming passengers slid down rescue chutes before flames filled the cabin. Dozens of survivors were taken to local hospitals. Passengers said that despite the chaos, most aboard Flight 214, which originated in Shanghai with a stop in Seoul, South Korea, seemed able to exit quickly and walk from the wreckage without help. The cause was unclear, but federal investigators were looking into whether the plane clipped a sea wall separating the runway from
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