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On the recordMarch 7, 2022
New Mexico is home to 23 Indigenous communities, tribes, and pueblos, and our tribes and pueblos have been here since time immemorial.
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Melanie Stansbury
Democratic · New Mexico

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Stansbury acknowledges the long-standing presence of Indigenous communities in New Mexico.

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