
For a campus comprised of mostly Native American students, there are only but a few choices of classes that delve into North American Indian history and heritage. And now those classes have been scrubbed from the University of New Mexico-Gallup’s fall line up.
“Native American History & Culture of North America” and “The Pueblo People” were both canceled in July.
These upper division classes were substituted with other classes to meet the necessary criteria towards a Bachelor’s Degree.
Ken Van Brott, operations manager for UNM-G’s Bachelor and Graduate Programs, said it wasn’t the Gallup branch’s choice to cancel the classes.
“The Native American classes were...