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On the recordDecember 4, 2023
We are going to look for those kinds of co-stewardship agreements because we hear over and over again in San Felipe Pueblo there is an inholding completely surrounded by reservation land that needs to be protected.
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Teresa Leger Fernandez
Democratic · New Mexico

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Highlighting the need for co-stewardship agreements to protect tribal lands.

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