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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Reckoning with the Past: Native Boarding Schools, Redistricting Begins & UNM Medical Residents Stay in State | 8.2.21
Description: This time on New Mexico in Focus, extended coverage of the federal government’s effort to document the truth about Native boarding schools. Interior secretary and former New Mexico congresswoman Deb Haaland announced the investigation this summer, on the heels of gruesome discoveries of mass graves at Canadian boarding school sites. Correspondent Antonia Gonzales speaks with two Native leaders about the need for the painful look back as well as the path forward toward healing.
Thirteen of the University of New Mexico Medical School’s 15 recent family and community medicine residents will stay in the state, boosting long...