Author: Donovan Quintero

With his red garrison cap pulled snug above his weathered brow and his hands gently resting over silver-and-turquoise medallions, Navajo Code Talker Thomas H. Begay sat beneath the cottonwood shadows at the Cove Chapter House, honoring the memory of a fallen comrade – the late John Kinsel Sr.

When the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expired on June 10, 2024, Mildred Chino was among the many who felt the final blow of a decades-long injustice.

As New Mexico’s 2026 gubernatorial race begins to take shape, Deb Haaland, the candidate for governor, warned that proposed federal cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs pose a “dangerous” threat to the state’s veterans.

On the Navajo Nation, where more than 30,000 military veterans are estimated to live, progress is underway to address long-standing inequities in housing, services, and benefits access.