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Article: Becoming a native
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- High Country News
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- November 26, 2007
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There's nothing like spending time in New Mexico to make you contemplate the West's long and tumultuous history and confront the thorny question: Just who is a native?
William "Sonny" Weahkee qualifies. He's a Pueblo Indian and Albuquerque activist who directs the SAGE Council, which fought for a decade alongside Anglo environmentalists against a proposed road splitting Petroglyph National Monument in two. This fall, Weahkee showed me the recently completed road, as well as the basaltic bench where his ancestors carved petroglyphs hundreds of years ago.
The list of natives would also include Jerry Ortiz y Pino, a state senator and social worker from Albuquerque who traces his roots in New ...
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