This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Lou Divizio and journalist Shaun Griswold consider what's next for Indigenous communities as the nation braces for a second Trump administration.

In an interview that first aired on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, correspondent Antonia Gonzales sits down with the Diné architect leading a project in Ohio to replace colonialist monuments and tributes. Tamarah Begay oversees the “Reimagining Columbus” project and explains how she’s collecting input from many cultural groups and assembling it all using her own Indigenous perspective as a guide.

Antonia looks back at 20 years of UNM's Native American Studies Department with a professor and an alumna. In this discussion that first ran in April, they discuss the program and its impacts in local and national indigenous communities.

Courtesy of the Koahnic Broadcasting Corporation, Antonia takes us to the Native Youth Olympics in Anchorage, Alaska. In this segment that first appeared in April, we hear from young athletes who are encouraged to strive for their personal best while keeping in touch with tradition.

NMiF airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) on Friday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 1 at 7 a.m. and streaming on the PBS video app.  

NMiF Segments
What a Second Trump Term Means for Indigenous Communities
Correspondent
Lou DiVizio

Guest
Shaun Griswold, Journalist

Diné Architect Reimagines Columbus  
Correspondent
Antonia Gonzales

Guest
Tamarah Begay (Diné), Lead Architect, Reimagining Columbus Project

Twenty Years of UNM’s Native American Studies Department
Correspondent
Antonia Gonzales

Guests
Tiffany Lee (Diné /Lakota), chair and professor, UNM Native American Studies Department  
Rebekah Horsechief (Osage/Pawnee), alumna

The 2024 Native Youth Olympics
Correspondent
Antonia Gonzales

Guests
Kunaq Marjorie Tahbone, emcee  
Adrianna Chalusiq Johnston, official
Sean Moonin, Toe Kick winner  
Jonathan Wilson, coach  
Kaytlynne Lewis, coach  
Lydia Alverts, official  
Adele Kuyuk Villa, coordinator    

Host
Lou DiVizio

New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic health, education, and art issues and explores them in-depth with a critical eye to give them context beyond the "news of the moment."

NMPBS Executive Producer, Public Affairs, is Jeff Proctor. New Mexico in Focus's senior producer for public affairs is Lou DiVizio. “Our Land” Senior Producer is Laura Paskus. The producer of New Mexico in Focus is Antonio Sanchez, and co-producer is Kathy Wimmer.

Funding for New Mexico in Focus is provided by the McCune Charitable Foundation and Viewers Like You.

Funding for the Your New Mexico Government Project comes from the Thornburg Foundation and New Mexico Local News Fund.

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