Gallup Sun

Part Two: A way forward

The Yazzie/Martinez decision has brought into sharp focus a long simmering debate about how best to educate Native American children.

New Mexico has passed laws since the 1970s intent on providing culturally relevant education and language programs to Native children, most notably the Bilingual Multicultural Education Act of 1973, and the Indian Education Act of 2003. It’s these laws that [late New Mexico Judge Sarah] Singleton pointed to as an existing state blueprint for adequate education, if only they were followed.

The decision described as ideal an educational framework that draws on decades of Native scholarship about the needs of Indigenous...

Week ending Friday, August 27, 2021


Greenland Rain

The second freakish heat wave to blow across Greenland so far this summer caused rain to fall at the highest point of the country’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history. The instruments at Greenland’s Summit Station, established in 1950, recorded temperatures above freezing for more than nine hours on Aug. 15, with rain falling off and on for 13 hours. But since there are no rain gauges at the typically frigid location, the research staff was unable to say how much rain actually fell.  Parts of the ice cap were 18 degrees Celsius above average on that day, triggering a massive melting event that was seven times above...

Rehoboth doctors respond to hospital’s anti-union letter
Date: Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 09:32
Subject: Response to Board

The super-majority of the employed physicians of the medical staff of RMCHCS who are seeking to unionize appreciate the efforts of our hospital’s Board of Directors to serve our community. We were blindsided and saddened to receive a statement from the Chair of the Board opposing our unionization and further, stating that it would not be in the best interests of patients, without even meeting with us first. We respect Mr. McKernan and his accomplishments, which were achieved with the help of unionized resident doctors, nurses, technicians, and other staff...

Celebrates downtown Gallup

Coal Avenue Commons held the ribbon-cutting for its first phase Aug. 24.

It is part of the gallupARTS partnership with the City of Gallup to re-imagine Coal Avenue as a signature “event street” and creative commercial hub.

Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts “Our Town” grant in 2018, which was matched by $150,000 from local government, the process is underway.

Mayor Louis Bonaguidi took note of the changes.

“Coming out of the theater last Thursday night (Aug. 19) when it was dark and seeing the street lit up, I can’t help but think we did the right thing. This is great,” Bonaguidi said.  “I think everybody in this community is...