Mary Francis Polanco, a lifelong journalist, will be remembered for her tenacity, her vision as a documentarian and her role in founding the Indigenous Journalists Association. Polanco, who founded ...

North America's Jicarilla Apache tribe cloaked themselves in trade, diplomacy, and intermarriage and nearly escaped incarceration on an American Indian reservation. How they did it has been a mystery ...

The Jicarilla Apache Nation (Nation) and an affiliate of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) announced today they have signed a 20-year right-of-way agreement that will allow the ...

Plains Apache, Jicarilla Apache, Lipan Apache, and Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache languages. However, the numbers of speakers are dwindling rapidly. It is estimated that only 14,000 people still ...

She was 86. She was born Mary Lynch on April 17, 1938, in Dulce, her home for most of her life and the headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, of which she was a member. She was educated at ...

Mary Frances Polanco, Jicarilla Apache, founder and first treasurer of the Indigenous Journalists Association passed away on Friday, March 6, 2025, in her hometown of Dulce, New Mexico.