Monday, February 23, 2026

Photo: The entrance to the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site in Ganado, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation. (Gabriel Pietrorazio / KJZZ)

The Interior Department is reviewing signs posted at more than a dozen national parks and monuments as part of President Donald Trump’s agenda to “restore truth and sanity to American history”.

As KJZZ’s Gabriel Pietrorazio reports, one figure featured at the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site on the Navajo Nation is now in the crosshairs.

To Navajos, Ganado Mucho (Many Cattle) is like a folk hero. He went on the “Long Walk”, marching hundreds of miles to be held at a New Mexico fort until he and other leaders signed an 1868 treaty.

“And he wasn’t defeated in the easy binary of stories that are winners and losers, but peacemaker doesn’t mean you’re not a resistor.”

University of Oklahoma professor Farina King (Diné) says Mucho’s legend may be at odds with how the U.S. wants to remember its past on the heels of the nation’s 250th anniversary.

“The thorn in the side is a disruption to the celebratory stories of Manifest Destiny, conquering the West, taming it and subjecting, you know, Indigenous peoples as if they’re just a part of a wild landscape.”

Once freed, Mucho then met fellow trader John Lorenzo Hubbell and kept making peace in the Southwest, settling disputes – often between Mormon ranchers and Navajos. In 1878, Hubbell set up his iconic trading post – still open to this day – and would rename that area. Hence Ganado, Ariz.

Health care officials say a new Level IV EMS trauma facility opened by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska will mean faster and more efficient care for residents who need emergency medical attention.

Mark Moran has more.

Winnebago Comprehensive Healthcare Services completed a $15 million emergency department in December, which then received a Level IV trauma center designation from the Nebraska Department of Public Health.

Marketing Specialist Halle Murray says the new facility is a dramatic upgrade over calling 911.

“Maybe the response time for Winnebago is longer if you try to call 911. So, here we actually have our own emergency line. It’s just a quicker response time, whether that’s needing help with something, or a ride to the hospital in an ambulance.”

It took six years for Winnebago’s emergency department to earn the trauma center designation, which included rigorous training for the medical professionals and other staff who work there.

In additional to advanced training and updated treatment protocols, the site itself was subject to a series of inspections and reviews prior to its Level IV designation.

Murray says the trauma center fills a big need.

“There’s always people who need help here on the reservation. Again, just getting to them quicker and helping them out the best that we can, and helping them get the care that they deserve, and I would say it’s a huge need in the Winnebago community right now.”

Nebraska has one Level I trauma center, located in Omaha.

A bill in the New Mexico Legislature that would have allowed state driver’s licenses and identifications to include Native American designations failed as the session closed last week, New Mexico In Depth reports.

The bill would have allowed applicants to request a mark to appear on their license or ID as Native American.

Supports say it is in response to federal immigration actions taking place across the country, as Native Americans have been among those confronted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and having the designation would be another layer of identification.

A handful of tribes in the state reportedly supported the bill.