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Teresa Leger Fernandez: “There were 300 salmon available for an entire tribe visualizes in many ways kind of the tears and the pain of the…”

On the recordJune 6, 2023
There were 300 salmon available for an entire tribe visualizes in many ways kind of the tears and the pain of the injustices that I think we all acknowledge that have occurred.
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Teresa Leger Fernandez
Democratic · New Mexico

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Leger Fernandez highlights the injustices faced by tribes regarding salmon availability.

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