1. Recognize, honor, and protect the sovereignty and capacity for self-governance of the Tribes and Pueblos of New
Mexico; and
2. Begin all Democratic Party of New Mexico events and proceedings with a land acknowledgment; and
3. Ensure all Native constituents have a mailing address to receive a voting ballot and have equal access to polling
locations; and
4. Support and assist New Mexico Tribes and Pueblos in obtaining sufficient and meaningful resources to bolster
and strengthen economic development and self-determination in sustainable and culturally sensitive ways; this
includes access to the basic social determinants of health, sound infrastructure development (clean air and
drinking water, waste water services, and electricity), access to broadband connectivity, utility accessibility, and
road improvements prioritizing school bus routes; and
5. Support Tribes, Nations, and Pueblos in protecting their original and currently recognized homelands and helping
ensure that water, air, land, and cultural resources and sacred sites are protected from damage, disturbance, and
contamination utilizing existing state and federal laws. We affirm that tribal communities have the right to
implement their own EPA standards and ensure restoration of their original homelands, in addition to the federal
government standards; and
6. We commit to supporting equitable compensation to Indian Tribes, Nations, and Pueblos for rights-of-way, leases,
and other uses of their lands and resources; and
7. Provide support for existing tribal and pueblo agricultural practices that include the protection of traditional
seed-saving, irrigation systems, and other cultural traditions; and
8. Support and assist Tribes and Pueblos in obtaining affordable and accessible quality health care and behavioral
healthcare. This includes addiction treatment services through delivery systems that include the Indian Health
Service (IHS), Medicare, and Medicaid. This will help in protecting funding streams that enable Tribes and
Pueblos to procure multi-level health care services for their members and provide sufficient funding for eldercare
services such as nutrition and caregiver programs in tribal communities. Prevent Medicaid funding based on block
grant formulae; and
9. Assist and support educational programs that respect tribal sovereignty and self-determination with an emphasis
on high-quality instruction, effective professional teacher development, recruitment, retention, and the
development of culturally sensitive curricula including Native language retention and instruction; and
10. Will work to effectuate meaningful education policy change that includes: (a) collaborating with the Bureau of
Indian Education; (b) supplementing and not supplanting federal Impact Aid funding; strengthening
self-determination by enabling culturally inclusive learning techniques unique to each tribal nation; (c) furnishing
and funding tribal libraries; (d) fostering the advancement of higher education that includes the re-introduction of
career technical education; (e) creating and developing a literate, highly skilled, and well-educated workforce
within tribal communities; (f) providing childcare, nutrition, and early childhood education programs in tribal
communities; (g) protecting Title IX funding and special education assistance programs, and (h) supporting
administration development and Indian Education support staff within tribal communities; and
11. Support and monitor the implementation of the Tribal Remedy Framework and the key tenets of the
Yazzie/Martinez vs. New Mexico case; and