I don’t know what Stewart Udall thought about the All Indian Pueblo Council’s secretive and almost surely illegal decision to demolish (in collusion with sympathetic officials at the Bureau of Indian Affairs) the historically significant campus of the Santa Fe Indian School. (Here is the background for those new to the tale.) Throughout his career, […]
On a recent Saturday, I drove out to the National Cemetery to see if they had spelled my mother’s name right. She went by her middle name, Dorris, and insisted on the two r’s. My father, who was an Army doctor in World War II, died a few years earlier, so his name was already […]
I received a call last week from Senator Tom Udall’s office apologizing for the delay in getting back to me about the demolition of the Santa Fe Indian School. (Please see my earlier reports for details.) A staff member said that the Senator has been assured by the Inspector General of the Interior Department, which […]