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Teresa Leger Fernandez: “We are peeling back the layers of what happened to the tribes, and how we reacquire the land is going to take an…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 2024
We are peeling back the layers of what happened to the tribes, and how we reacquire the land is going to take an awareness and acknowledgement of those things.
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Teresa Leger Fernandez
Democratic · New Mexico

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Discussing the need for awareness in land reacquisition for tribes.

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