Monday, April 14, 2025 — This week on the federal chopping block: libraries, museums, low-income heating, and food sovereignty

At least one tribal library in New Mexico will have to close after the Trump Administration abruptly canceled federal grants administered through the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Many more libraries and museums in the state and around the country are forced to cut hours, eliminate staff, cancel traditional programs, and curb purchases for new books and other materials. They are among the latest in the on-going efforts by the Trump Administration to drastically change federal services. Those cuts also include supplements to low-income Navajo Nation citizens and hundreds more Native Americans nationwide who rely on the funds to help them heat their homes in the winter. We’ll get the latest rundown of staff and funding reductions by the federal government.

GUESTS

Dr. April Counceller (Alutiiq tribal member of the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak), executive director of the Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository

Cassandra Osterloh (Cherokee Nation), New Mexico State Library tribal libraries program coordinator

Alicia Allard, tribal Head Start consultant and specialist for Little Hawk Consulting

Jill Falcon Ramaker (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), assistant professor in food systems, nutrition and kinesiology and director of Buffalo Nations Food Sovereignty Initiative at Montana State University

Andrea Pesina (Isleta Pueblo), executive director of Isleta Head Start & Child Care and president of the National Indian Head Start Directors Association

Break 1 Music: Rise Up (song) Big Every Time (artist) Universitile (album)

Break 2 music: Learned from the Late Ralph Kotay (song) Kenneth Cozad & Group (artist) Songs of Our Old People – Old-Time Round Dance Songs of Oklahoma (album)