New Mexico lawmakers and tribal leaders are calling for the protection of Chaco Canyon, an Indigenous archaeological and historical site in the state, as Republicans attempt to repeal federal land protections surrounding the area. The Bureau of Land Management within the US Department of the Interior (DOI) has begun the “process of revoking” a federal land order that halted new oil and gas leases for 20 years around the archaeological site, according to New Mexico Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich and other lawmakers. Twenty-five Indigenous and conservation groups wrote a letter to DOI Secretary Doug Burgum on Monday, June 23, urging the department not to abandon its protections of Chaco Canyon. Meanwhile, the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), the only four-year school devoted to contemporary Indigenous arts, could lose all of its federal funding beginning October 1 if President Trump’s proposed federal budget is passed. Read more in the articles by Isa Farfan through our li...