Obituaries for May 27, 2021
This week: Wilma Boehms Cake, Eleanor Marie Smith, Gilbert Francis, Freddy Wood Sr., Lyssa Rose Upshaw, Mary Ann Black, Melissa Renee Aragon, and Olin Dean Watchman.
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Abducted and erased by Hollywood’s white saviors
Universal Pictures’ Golden Globe and Oscar nominated film “News of the World” seizes Native American history and identity to tell yet another Euro-American fantasy of America’s fabled Wild West, this time stripped almost completely of American Indian presence.
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Picking up the fight: Diné student wins uranium essay contest
Charisma Black, along with other students from northern Arizona, took on a challenge issued by the 4th World Foundation to research uranium mining effects on Black Mesa.
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Code talker inspired many at 2010 Memorial Day event
On Memorial Day 2010, the staff of Montezuma Castle National Monument in Camp Verde, Arizona, hosted an educational program by Navajo Code Talker Dan Akee, who was joined by his wife Margaret and family.
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Governor makes missing, murdered priority; all asked to help
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed an executive order to expand the state’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Task Force.
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