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🪶 Indigenous Roots: Today in History… December 2, 1970 – After decades of Taos Pueblo organizing, the U.S. Senate finally voted to return their sacred Blue Lake and surrounding lands. Senators killed a watered-down substitute bill and approved H.R. 471 by a vote of 70–12, clearing the last big hurdle before the land could legally go back to Taos Pueblo.  Blue Lake sits high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and is the spiritual heart of Taos Pueblo – a place of origin, ceremony, and prayer the

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