Indigenous affairs reporter @NMInDepth and Yurok tribal member
Albuquerque, NM
Joined August 2018
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A group of Mescalero Apache teens are building wildfire and flood warning sensors to protect their southern New Mexico community from natural disasters that are becoming more frequent and destructive.
From Indigenously Positive, our series with @NMPBS. nmindepth.com/2026/mescalero…
Bella Davis retweeted
In Santa Clara Pueblo, kids are connecting science with culture through a new curriculum initiative.
This story is part of Indigenously Positive, a collaborative series from New Mexico In Depth and @NMPBS telling joyful stories from Native communities. nmindepth.com/2026/students-…
Bella Davis retweeted
A bill that would’ve given tribal citizens the option to request a mark on their state-issued IDs identifying them as Native American — introduced partly in response to fears about ICE — failed to clear its last stop before passage, @bladvs reports. nmindepth.com/2026/bill-that…
Bella Davis retweeted
The New Mexico Senate is calling for a study of the scope and ongoing impacts of forced sterilization of Indigenous women and women of color and, later, the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission, @bladvs reports. #nmleg nmindepth.com/2026/new-mexic…
With reports across the country of ICE agents detaining Native people, New Mexico lawmakers are considering a bill that would give tribal citizens the option to request a mark on their IDs identifying them as Native American. @NMInDepth nmindepth.com/2026/amid-fear…
Bella Davis retweeted
This week begins our 2024 election interviews with @SenatorHeinrich, D-N.M. In collaboration with @NMInDepth, Indigenous Affairs Reporter Bella Davis speaks with several Native people about this election.
Watch Friday at 7pm and stream on the PBS app. @bladvs @GwynethDoland
Elijah Hadley was a Mescalero Apache teenager walking along a highway in Otero County when a driver called 911 out of concern for his safety. The responding deputy shot at him over a dozen times, killing him. Community members are calling for charges.
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Bella Davis retweeted
At least 973 Native American children died at U.S.-run boarding schools between 1871-1969
Second Interior Department report identifies more tribes at 417 schools, unmarked graves and lays out a plan to heal
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Bella Davis retweeted
.@bladvs reports two of seven people the New Mexico Indian Affairs Department lists as members of a new advisory council on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People dispute that they are. So, who is on the council?
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Bella Davis retweeted
The following statement is from Bryant Furlow, an independent investigative journalist who regularly partners with @nmindepth, about his arrest yesterday during a police action on @UNM's main campus to clear a student Gaza solidarity encampment.
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Bella Davis retweeted
ProPublica distributed notecards to homeless people in Albuquerque and asked them about objects they had lost when their encampments were hauled away. Here's what they said. propublica.org/article/albuq… @nicolesantacruz
A spokeswoman for @GovMLG apologized to Indigenous families with missing and murdered loved ones last Friday during a protest at the Roundhouse over the end of a state task force created to find solutions to the MMIWR crisis.
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Bella Davis retweeted
On the Navajo Nation, a daughter yearns for her mother, missing for five years. nmindepth.com/2023/on-the-na… via @bladvs @NMInDepth/@Report4America
Julia Vicente went missing from the Navajo Nation in 2018. Over five years later, her family still doesn’t know what happened to her, and her daughter says the police failed them. Thousands more Indigenous people have disappeared or been murdered.
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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's admin has quietly ended a task force created to find solutions to the missing and murdered Indigenous people crisis. Some members and lawmakers who advised them say their work was just beginning. @NMInDepth @Report4America nmindepth.com/2023/new-mexic…
Bella Davis retweeted
For over 120 years, dams have had a chokehold on the Klamath River. Twenty years ago, tribal youth founded the Salmon Run to call for the removal of the dams after 70k salmon died before spawning. This year’s run will coincide with work to demolish them.
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Native women-led orgs met at the Roundhouse today to demand @GovMLG withdraw her appointment of James Mountain as Indian Affairs secretary. The group put tape over their mouths to visualize “all that power but also the silencing that is happening.” @NMInDepth @Report4America
Mountain was accused of rape in 2007. The charges were later dropped. Several state lawmakers joined the group today to speak out against Mountain’s appointment. More background: nmindepth.com/2023/native-ad…
Bella Davis retweeted
A Source NM reporter is spending this year looking closely at the aftermath of the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon fire. We could use your help.
Check out our story and form below if you've been affected by the fire or flood. And feel free to reach out, too. bit.ly/3EPLJQW
Bella Davis retweeted
Important story from @bladvs here. Some of the responses to Bella's questions are of particular note.
At their meeting yesterday, members of New Mexico's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives task force condemned @GovMLG's appointment to lead the Indian Affairs Department. Sen. Shannon Pinto said she would fight the nomination. #nmleg #nmpol
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