Melanie Stansbury: “When politicians begin deciding what facts are acceptable, scholarship ceases to be scholarship; it becomes propaganda.”

“They initiated tribal outreach during the government shutdown when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was not even staffed and operable,”

Yesterday's passage of the Albuquerque Indian School Act in the House of Representatives is a major step forward in a decades-long effort to return land to the stewardship of New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos in Albuquerque.

I rise tonight during Black History Month to raise the alarm on the rewriting of American history that is happening at our national parks, our museums, our monuments, and our public spaces as the Trump administration is attempting to erase…

I cannot stand when politicians come into the Chambers of these hallowed Halls to represent the people of this country, pretending to represent the hardworking poor and working families of this country, and actually are doing the bidding…