In New Mexico where I now live, cultural and historical inequities of ac- cess to education have been intensified by the pandemic. In the Santa Fe New Mexican, Anthony J. Wallace describes how COVID-19 has challenged the Nav- ajo Nation with death and loss, upheav- al and isolation.
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Back to School flyers fall out of Sunday’s New Mexican; catalogs for Santa Fe Community College are stacked in newspaper…
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