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Partnership worries immigrant advocates Some say collaboration between Santa Fe police and the feds could lead to more deportations for low-level offenses. Page C-1
Police find stolen car with cellphone app
Fort Sill Apaches fight to reclaim roots in N.M. State Supreme Court to hear arguments in recognition case this week
Authorities arrest La Cienega man after tracking vehicle with stolen phone inside. Page C-1
DAM Danger potential New Mexico’s 491 dams are rated for their potential hazards and conditions.
High: If the dam fails or is misoperated, some people will probably die.
237 Significant: If the dam fails or is poorly operated, no one is likely to die, but extensive economic loss, environmental damage and disruption to a major highway are likely.
85 Low: Dam failure or misoperation isn’t
likely to cause loss of human life, and any damage will probably be limited to the dam owner’s property.
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Pastor transforms Española building into house of worship. Page C-6
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SWAIA
Officials defend arts group in transition By Anne Constable The New Mexican
Two members of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts board recently compared the organization that presents the annual Santa Fe Indian Market to the grandmothers who helped raise them. After 93 years, they said, the group needs to be “fed, nurtured and respected.” The nonprofit organization is in the midst of a transition to a more sustainable economic model and John an executive shakeTorres Nez up following the resignation of its chief operating officer. It has been fielding complaints from artists and weathering a social media storm over the departure of COO John Torres Nez, who was widely lauded for his leadership of SWAIA. Many artists question whether the group can pull off this year’s Indian Market without him. But two board members spoke out in defense of the organization. “When people talk poorly about this 93-year-old woman [SWAIA] on social media or in print, it’s hard for me not to take that personally,” said Roger Fragua of Jemez Pueblo, a former tribal administrator and current president of a company that supports tribal community and economic development.
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Apache Indian prisoners sit at a rest stop beside the Southern Pacific Railway, near Nueces River, Texas, on Sept. 10, 1886. Among those on their way from New Mexico to exile in Florida are Natchez, center front, and, to the right, Geronimo and his son in matching shirts. They would eventually be settled in Fort Sill, Okla. National Archives No. 523549
By Milan Simonich
Emily Haozous of Santa Fe and her father, Bob Haozous, the son of artist Allan Houser, are shown with the sculptor’s artwork titled Heading Home on the grounds of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
Oklahoma tribe, not one of New Mexico. “The state believes that these limited resources are more appropriately reserved for those tribes that serve a population base here in New Mexico,” said Enrique Knell, Martinez’s press secretary. “The federal government has
By Kerry Hannon
The New York Times
Always driven by the desire to explore the world, Sandra Colony decided to make travel planning her full-time vocation when her job as a senior adviser for employee communications at Time Warner Cable ended. Tina Fineberg/The New York Times
Ever since Sandra Colony was a child, when she was spellbound by photographs of exotic places in the pages of National Geographic, she has been driven by the desire to explore the world. And she has. To date, she has visited 90 countries. “I knew I loved to travel as a little girl, but I certainly never knew at 68 I would be
Doña Ana County commissioners received a dire warning last September. It predicted a disaster if rains overwhelmed dams and drainage systems in La Union, a colonia of about 300 homes near the U.S./Mexico border. Two days later, on Sept. 12, the prediction came true. A torrent of rain fell and water breached a small earthen dam upstream from La Union. Homes flooded, streets were wiped out and residents were without gas, power or drinking water for several days. A sinkhole swallowed one resident’s vehicle. No one died, but the flood through La Union is an example of a dangerous and potentially expensive situation developing all over the state as homes have sprung up downstream of dams designed to protect agricultural fields, not people. The Natural Resources Conservation Service alone built 102 earthen dams around the state in the 1960s and ’70s to prevent silt and floodwaters from burying farmlands.
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not recognized Fort Sill as a New Mexico tribe, finding that they lack any government structure or population base in New Mexico.” On Monday, lawyers for the tribe and the governor will argue before the New Mexico Supreme
starting a career out of it,” Colony said. Yet the New York City resident has done precisely that with her new venture, Personalized Odysseys. For more than 25 years, she balanced her wanderlust with working in the cable industry, managing corporate communications. Duties often made it difficult to take off for two or more consecutive weeks, but she cajoled her bosses into giving her
Obituaries Charles “Dick” Kuhn, April 9 Diana Sanchez, 59, La Cienega, April 9
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the time to travel. Not surprisingly, her friends who were eyeing a getaway and were well aware of her travel acumen frequently turned to Colony for insight and itinerary planning. So when her job as a senior adviser for employee communications at Time Warner Cable ended in April 2012, she decided it was time to follow her passion and
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Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian Closing day for the exhibit The Durango Collection: Native American Weaving in the Southwest, 1860-1880, 10 a.m.5 p.m., 704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 982-4636, wheelwright.org.
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T
hey were proud warriors who became American prisoners of war, men and women herded from their homeland in the Southwest by the U.S. government and then held in distant outposts. Geronimo was the best-known of these Chiricahua and Warm Springs Apaches. They lived in northern Mexico and what are now New Mexico and Arizona until 1886, when the brute force of cavalry soldiers pushed out the last of them. Their 700 descendants are called Fort Sill Apaches, after the territorial Army post in Oklahoma where tribal members eventually were relocated during their imprisonment. Today, Fort Sill Apaches say their unwavering ambition is to return their ancestral home to New Mexico. The tribe holds a spare 30-acre reservation off Interstate 10 near Deming and wants to continue developing it. But Gov. Susana Martinez has refused to recognize the tribe, depriving it of the chance to seek state financial support. Martinez’s administration says money is in short supply, and that the Fort Sill Apaches are an
Earthen dams pose dangers statewide By Staci Matlock
The New Mexican
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