[ ♪♪♪ ] PSH PSH >> COMING UP IN THE NEXT HOUR OF LOCAL NEWS ON ARIZONA PBS - ON "ARIZONA HORIZON", THIS WEEK'S JOURNALISTS' ROUNDTABLE LOOKS AT THE STATE SENATE'S ON GOING BATTLE WITH MARICOPA COUNTY OVER ELECTION INTEGRITY, WE'LL ALSO TALK ABOUT VOUCHER EXPANSION AND MORE.

ON "CRONKITE NEWS", HOW A SCHOOL THAT HELPS STUDENTS IN A DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY WAS ABLE TO STAY OPEN THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC.

AND ON "BREAK IT DOWN", VISION AS A TOOL FOR GROWTH.

ALL THIS AND MORE AHEAD IN THE NEXT HOUR ON ARIZONA PBS.

[ ♪ THEME ♪ ] >> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "ARIZONA HORIZON".

I'M TED SIMONS.

WE END THE WEEK WITH ANOTHER ENCOURAGING COVID REPORT.

ARIZONA WITH JUST 423 NEW CASES ON RECORD FOR THE DAY.

THE STATE'S 7-DAY AVERAGE FOR NEW CASES NOW RANKS 39TH HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY.

AND ARIZONA'S 7-DAY AVERAGE FOR COVID-RELATED FATALITIES IMPROVED, IT'S NOW 15TH HIGHEST.

THE STATE CERTIFYING 46 DEATHS TODAY.

THE CDC TODAY RELEASED NEW DISTANCING GUIDELINES FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS.

THE RECOMMENDATION IS NOW FOR KIDS TO STAY 3 FEET APART INSTEAD OF 6 FEET - THAT'S WITH MASKS AND OTHER PREVENTION MEASURES IN PLACE.

THE CDC EMPHASIZING THIS IS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS, NOT OLDER STUDENTS.

>> BECAUSE COVID-19 IS SPREAD MORE LIKELY AMONG OLDER STUDENTS, C.D.C.

RECOMMEND THAT MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SHOULD BE AT LEAST SIX FEET > YES, YES, I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY A RECOUNT IS HAPPENING WHEN A RECOUNT IS NOT WARRANTED.

IS THIS WHY THE WORD FORENSIC KEEPS POPPING UP.

>> I KEEP WANTING THERE TO BE A C.S.I.

SO WE CAN BE FORENSIC.

IT SEEMS PEOPLE ARE NOT SURE, IT GOES BACK TO FOUR YEARS WHEN TRUMP WERE ELECTED.

HE AND SOME SUPPORTERS WERE SURPRISED THEY WERE ELECTED AND WEREN'T SURE WHAT TO DO AT THE START.

WE CAN MAKE AN INTERESTING POINT ABOUT THE SUBPOENA POWER AT THE SENATE.

NOT A SURPRISE THAT THE JUDGES MOVED THE WAY THEY DID.

DID THE SENATE KNOW WHAT TO DO ONCE THEY HAD THE POWER.

>> I DON'T THINK IT WAS REALLY CLEAR, YOU KNOW, TO THEM EXACTLY HOW TO DO THIS.

THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THEY DON'T HAVE AN AUDITOR AT THE BEGINNING.

THERE'S A BIT OF GAMESMANSHIP THERE, ABOUT WHERE TO CONDUCT THE AUDIT.

AND SUPERVISORS JORP SENT THE SENATE A LETTER SAYING ALL RIGHT -- SENT THE SENATE AN ALERT SAYING ALL RIGHT.

WE DON'T HAVE A PLACE FOR IT YET.

AND THE SENATE WANTS TO DO THE AWED ILT.

I DO WANT TO POINT OUT.

IS THIS NECESSARILY A RECOUNT.

THEY ARE LOOKING FOR AN AUDIT.

FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IT'S NOT CLEAR WHAT UT AUDIT MEANS, AND I KNOW THE SENATE SIT CAN YOU HELP OUT WITH THE AUDIT.

AND THEY SAID KNOW.

>> THEY CAN CALL IT A HAND COUNT, RECOUNT.

THEY ARE COUNTING BALL OLTS, 2.

-- BALLOTS, 2.1 MILLION, AND ARE NOT GOING THROUGH HOOPS AND HURDLES THAT ARE IN PLACE.

I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE VOUCHER EXPANSION PLAN.

DID WE NOT JUST VOTE ON THIS.

>> YES, AND VOTERS REJECTED IT SOUNDLY WITH THE SCHOOLS, THE MOVEMENT THERE.

AGAIN, AN ODD SITUATION, NOT A SPRIGS WHEN IT COMES TO CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE LEGISLATURE, REPUBLICANS IN THE LEGISLATURE, MAY NOT APPLY TO THE VOTING PUBLIC AT LARGE.

LARGE VANS, THEY WANT TO DO MORE, AND THE LATEST EDITION IS VERY LIKELY TO GET IT TOGETHER.

IT WOULD EXPAND THE TITLE ONE SCHOOLS, THE ELEGIBILITY FOR OPPORTUNITIES IN TITLE ONE SCHOOLS.

WE ARE TALKING OVER A MILLION STUDENTS.

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TRIPLING THE NUMBER, THAT HAS FOLKS ON THE OTHER SIDE SAYING WE ARE NOT FUNDING PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NOW WE WANT TO GIVE MORE MONEY FOREST SA EXPANSION.

WE SEE THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT.

>> YOU MENTIONED AT THE STAR HERE, THAT IS THERE WAS SOME QUESTION AS TO WHETHER THE PROPOSAL WENT FURTHER.

THERE WAS A POINT WHERE THE SENATE WANTED TO RECALL THE BILL FROM THE HOUSE AFTER ALREADY HAVING PASSED IT AND SEND IT OVER TO THE OTHER CHAMBER.

THIS IS MOVING, AS STEVE MENTIONED.

A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE, IT WILL GET RID OF THE PROHIBITION IN THE ORIGINAL BILL MAKING ANY STUDENT ATTENDING A LOW-INCOME SCHOOL ELIGIBLE.

IT IS ELIGIBLE FOR STUDENTS RECEIVING FROM OR CHEAPER LUNCHES.

AND FOR THE CHILDREN OF MILITARY AS WELL.

IT WOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE TO 55% OF ARIZONAN STUDENTS.

>> THE LOW INCOME ASSETS.

THE FOCUS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON LOW INCOME STUDENT.

THAT WASN'T HAPPENING IN PREINCARNATION, THIS IS MORE OF A FOCUS.

>> I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S MORE REFINED.

BUT IT IS LIMITED TO STUDENTS GETTING FREE AND REDUCED LUNCHES, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY EVERYONE IN A TITLE ONE SCHOOL.

IT'S PHYSICALLY THOSE STUDENTS THAT ARE GETTING FREE AND REDUCED LUNCHES.

>> STEVE, MARCO LOPEZ, WHO IS HE, WHY IS HE RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR, MAY.

>> MAYOR OF HIS NATIVE CITY AT THE AGE OF 22.

WORKING FOR SECRETARY POLITANO IN THE HOMELAND SECURITY AND HAS BECOME A BUSINESSMAN WORKING FOR CARLOS SLIM AMONG OTHERS.

VERY, VERY RICH MAN FROM MEXICO AS WELL.

INTERESTING PERSON, BEING INVOLVED IN POLITICS IN HIS EARLY 40S, SINCE HIS EARLY 20S.

INTERESTING HE'S GETTING IN EARLY, THE MAIN IDEA IS NOT THERE.

GREAT CONNECTIONS IN BUSINESS.

INTERESTING IN THE SENSE THAT IN THE PAST WE HAVE SEEN THE GOVERNOR AND DAVID GARCIA, BRINGING OUTBOARDER SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION.

IF MARCO LOPEZ GOT THE NOMINATION WOULD THEY GET IT THE OTHER WAY.

>> LUIGI LOPEZ, IS HE PROGRESSIVE ENOUGH FOR THE DEMOCRATS.

>> WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD TO TELL, YOU KNOW, HOW PROGRESSIVE.

HOW LIBERAL HE IS.

SUFFICIENT YOU JUST BASED ON THE STATEMENTS HE MADE.

WE HAD TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE WAS MAYOR AT THE AGE OF 22, AND THAT IS NOT A PARTISAN POSITION BEING A MAYOR OF A TOWN, IT'S AN IMPORTANT TOIN, A TRADING DOWN, IF YOU WILL.

THE ONE THING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL LIKE BEEN MARCO LOPEZ IS HIS BUSINESS BACKGROUND.

THE FACT THAT HE'S A FOUNDING PARTNER FOR SKY BRIDGE ARSE R IF YOU KNOW THAT'S THE DEVELOPMENT TO PHOENIX MESA, ALLOWING AMERICAN-MEXICAN TO JOINTLY INSPECT AND PROCESS SHIPMENTS, THAT DEVELOPMENT COULD POTENTIALLY OPEN UP HUGE SWABS OF MARKET.

AND HAVING THEM GO THROUGH ARIZONA.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF DZ TYPES THAT I WOULD THINK WOULD LIKE MICHAEL LOPEZ.

OF COURSE HIS DEFICIT MAY BE THE FACT THAT HE'S NOT FROM METRO PHONETIC, AND YOU ALWAYS HAVE THIS KID OF A, YOU KNOW, IS IT THE M THING OR A NON -- THE MARICOPA THING OR NON-MARICOPA THING.

IT'S EARLY IN THE RACE, WE ARE TAKING ABOUT KATIE HOBBS AND THE LIKE.

HE'D NEED A LOT OF MONEY TO RAISE RIS I.D.

AND A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM FOLKS.

HE IS A CREDIBLE CANDIDATE.

>> GIVE US OTHER NAMES, THE FIRST OF I WOULD IMAGINE QUITE A FEW ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE.

>> WE MENTION CAVEATEE HOBBS, WE ARE WATCHING TO SEE, AND DISTRICT OF COURSE, AND SLOWING DOWN A BIT.

I'M INTERESTED TO SEE IF THE MOI JUNIOR NIGHT -- MAYOR MIGHT DIVE IN.

THE FORKER LAW-MAKER IS -- FORMER LAW-MAKER IS A FALLEN MAN.

>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

HAVE A GREAT SWND.

>> THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU.

>> UP NEXT, WE'RE VISITING WITH INFLUENTIAL AND PROMINENT ARIZONA WOMEN AS PART OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.

TONIGHT, A CONVERSATION WITH MARY ROSE WILCOX.

>> IT'S WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, AND WE'RE SPEAKING WITH ARIZONA WOMEN ABOUT THE STATE'S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

TONIGHT, OUR GUEST IS MARY ROSE WILCOX, THE FIRST LATINA TO SERVE ON THE PHOENIX CITY COUNCIL AND THE MARICOPA BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

>> GOOD TO SEE YOU GAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH -- GAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US HERE, WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.

WHAT IS THAT?

WHAT DOES WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH MEAN TO YOU?

>> TO ME IT'S A RECOGNITION OF WOMEN, FOR YEARS WOMEN WERE IN THE BACKGROUND.

PARTICULARLY IN THE POLITICAL ARENA, WE WERE ALWAYS THE WORKERS, BUT NEVER ROSE TO THE FOREFRONT.

FOR ME, PARTICULARLY INVOLVED IN POLITICS, IT MEANS THAT WE ARE HIGHLIGHTING AND SHOWING WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE FRONT LINE AND DOING THINGS.

>> AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH THE SERIES HERE, LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU, FOURTH GENERATION ARIZONAN, CORRECT.

>> YES, I AM.

MY MOTHER AND DAD WAS IN A MINING TOWN.

MY BEFORE THAT, HER MOTHER AND DAD CAME FROM THE FLORENCE AREA.

AND THEY MIGRATED FROM TUSCON, AND THE LAST GENERATION THAT WAS IN MEXICO.

>> YOU GOT INTO POLITICS, I WANT TO KNOW WAS THERE SOMETHING, WHEN YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL, WHEN YOU WERE GOING TO SCHOOL, A TEENAGER - SOUND LIKE - IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY YOUR FAMILY WAS VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY.

>> THEY REALLY WERE, MY MOM IN THE CHURCH, DAD IN CIVIC AFFAIRS.

THEE WAS THE LITTLE LEAGUE COACH, HEAD OF COMMITTEES, WHEN I GOT TO HIGH SCHOOL THERE WERE FEW HISPANICS ON THE STUDENT COUNCIL.

AND I DECIDED THAT I WAS GOING TO RUN, I RAN AGAINST A POPULAR WOMAN, AND I RAN, AND THAT STARTED ME BEING VERY INTERESTED.

ONCE I GOT ON THE STUDENT COUNCIL, I COULD DO A LOT FOR THE STUDENTS.

>> YOU SAW PUBLIC SERVICE AS SOMETHING INTERESTING, WHEN DID POLITICS BECOME SOMETHING THAT COULD BE A CAREER FOR YOU.

>> DO YOU KNOW MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BEEN MARRIED 50 YEARS, I WAS GOING TO SAY WE GOT MARRIED.

AND BOTH OF US WANTED TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE POLITICAL ARENA, WE WEREN'T SURE.

WE WANTED TO MAKE CHANGE, WE WERE THE CHILDREN, THE WORLD WAS GOING CRAZY, AND WE WANTED TO MAKE CHANGE AND BRING OUR COMMUNITY INTO THE REAL WORLD.

SO WE MADE A PACK, WE GOT MARRIED.

WE RAN FIRST, AND SERVED FOR 14 YEARS, AND I WAS FORTUNATE TO GET A JOB IN THE SENATE.

IN THE MID 70S.

TO LATE '70s, AND THEN STUDENT COUNCIL OPENED UP.

AND I RAN FOR THAT POSSESSION.

>> YOU WAN FOR THAT POSITION AND YOU RAN.

YOU WERE THE FIRST LATINO ON THE MARICOPA BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

>> YES.

INTO AND OBVIOUSLY THE LATINO INFLUENCE THERE IS OBVIOUS.

BUT I WANT TO FOCUS ON THE WOMEN ASPECT OF IT.

DID YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WERE TAKEN SIRLS, DID YOU FEEL THERE WERE XROP HAIRED MS YOU HAD TO -- EXTRA HURDLES YOU HAD TO JUMP OVER.

>> WHEN I GOT ON THE CITY COUNCIL, I WAS ON FOR TWO TERMS, I HAD TO MOVE FORWARD.

WHEN I RAN FOR CITY COUNCIL FOR THE FIRST TIME, I WENT DOOR TO DOOR AND MANY WOMEN IN THE COMMUNITY, OLDER WOMEN SAID "WE ARE SO GLAD YOU ARE RUNNING, SO MANY ISSUES", THEY WANTED ME TO STAY IN IT AND SAID, "WE WILL VOTE FOR THE FIRST TIME", THAT WAS EYE-CHANGING, I WAS A WOMAN AND HISPANIC SO THEY'D GO OUT AND VOTE.

WHEN I GOT TO COUNCIL.

IT WAS A LIBERAL COUNCIL.

TERRY GODDAR WAS THE MAYOR, DWAYNE AND CALVIN WERE ON THERE.

I STILL HAD A LITTLE BIT OF PUSHBACK FROM BEING A WOMAN, I REMEMBER ONE TIME THEY WERE IN THE MEN'S BALME AND I OPENED -- BATHROOM AND I SAID NO, NOT FAIR, YOU GUYS COME OUT IF YOU ARE GOING TO TALK POLITICS.

>> COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

>> THE COUNTY WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.

WHEN I GOT THERE BAYLISS WAS ON IT.

THERE HAD BEEN WOMEN ON IT.

COUNTY WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.

BUT YOU ALWAYS FEEL IT, AS A WOMAN, PEOPLE DON'T GIVE YOU YOUR DUES.

IT'S CHANGING WHERE YOU SEE PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRESS AND VICE-PRESIDENT.

AND IT'S CHALLENGING.

>> WHEN I CAME IN, I WAS ON THE FOREFRONT OF WOMEN IN POLITICS, AND I HAD TO WORK FOR EVERYTHING I GOT 10 TIMES HARDER THAN MEN.

I'M NOT LYING ABOUT IT.

IT'S JUST WE LOOKED AT IT AND SAID AS A MATTER OF FACT.

IF YOU WANT TO GET THINGS DONE, YOU HAVE TO WORK 24 HOURS A DAY.

>> YOU GOT THING DONE AS FAR AS APPROVING THE DOWNTOWN BALLPARK AS A BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEMBER THERE.

THIS WAS CONTROVERSIAL.

YOU GOT SHOT BECAUSE YOU HAVE THIS.

PEOPLE FIND THAT HARD TO BELIEVE.

YOU WERE SHOT BECAUSE OF YOUR VOTE TO APPROVE A TAX FOR THE BALLPARK.

>> SOMEHOW DID THAT CHANGE HOW YOU SAW POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE.

>> FIRST OF ALL, I WAS SHOT BECAUSE I HAD BEEN RE-ELECTED.

AND I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO VOTED FOR THE STATE AND WAS RE-ELECTED.

I PAID ATTENTION TO MY COMMUNITY, I MADE SURE THAT LABOUR HAS JOBS AT A STADIUM CONSTRUCTION SITE.

THAT THE LOCAL UNIONS WERE INVOLVED.

I REACHED OUT FOR MINORITIES FOR SOME OF THE STANDS AT THE BALLPARK.

WHEN I GOT SHOT, I KNEW THAT I GOT SHOT BECAUSE I WAS A MEXICAN WOMAN WHO WAS MOVING TOO FAST.

AND IT DIDN'T - THE FIRST TIME I WAS IN THE SURGERY, MY HUSBAND CAME UP AND YOU SAID - MARY ROSE, I SAID EARL, I DON'T WANT THIS JOB, TAKE IT.

AMP I WOKE UP AND EVERYTHING HAMILTON I THOUGHT I'M NOT GOING TO LET THAT MAN TAKE ME OUT.

I SERVED MY COMMUNITY, AND THEY ELECTED ME, IT REDEDICATED MY WILL TO SERVE PEOPLE EVEN MORE.

>> INTERESTING.

IT WAS A SCARY TIME AND WILL OBVIOUSLY THAT WAS A CAREY SITUATION FOR YOU.

THERE WAS A CONGRESSIONAL RUN AS WELL.

I REMEMBER THAT.

THERE WAS QUITE A DEBATE BETWEEN YOU AND OTHER CANDIDATES.

THAT GOT NASTY RECOLLECTS AND ARE DID THAT CHANGE THE WAY YOU SAW PUBLIC SERVICE.

>> FOR A LITTLE BIT IT DID.

WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT RACE, I WAS COMING OFF A BIG FIGHT WITH ARKYLE HE OF ACCUSED ME OF ALL SORTS OF THINGS, HE HAD TAKEN ME TO COURT MUCH I WAS 100% INNOCENT.

BUT RUBEN TYKE A LOT OF WHAT AR KYLE SAID AND PUT IT OUT THERE.

PEOPLE WERE UNSURE, THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN THE COURT CASE.

ULTIMATELY I LOST THE RACE.

FOR A COUPLE OF YEAR, I DIDN'T GO UNDERGROUND.

PEOPLE DEMANDED A LOT OF MY ATTENTION.

A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOCK ON DOORS AND ASK FOR ISSUES, I WASN'T AS VOCAL OR AS MAYBE IN THE POLICE CALL PACE.

-- POLITICAL SPACE, I JUST SAID I'M GOING TO COME BACK.

I JUST STARTED TO WORK THE COMMUNITY AGAIN.

A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE CALLING ME, AND THE COUNTY HAD RUN OFF THE HEALTH SYSTEM.

I RAN FOR THE OFFICE AND STARTED HELPING PEOPLE AGAIN.

THROUGHOUT THE TIME IN 14, I START SERVING ON THE HEALTH BOARD.

I WAS PRETTY ACTIVE.

I KNEW WHY I HAD LOST.

THE FIGHT, AND THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF PEOPLE.

AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T TAKE THINGS PERSONAL, WHICH I HAVE TO DO.

WHAT DO I DO.

AND ALL OF THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE I HAD GAINED FROM MY ELECTED OFFICE, I DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE IT UP.

>> AND LAST QUESTION, WITH THAT WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE, WITH ALL OF YOUR EXPERIENCE, BEING A WOMAN WHAT WAS A FIRST IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS, AND HAVING TO FIGHT THE BATTLES, DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A MENTOR?

>> YES, I DO.

AND I REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, AND I MENTORED A LOT OF MEN AND WOMEN EDGE.

I SEE WHO IS DOING THINGS.

MANY PEOPLE CALL ME AND SAY "CAN YOU GIVE ME ADVICE", I TRY TO BE A SOUNDING BOARD.

I GIVE THEM IDEAS, AND WHAT I SEE IN THE POLITICAL HAY RINA.

I'M PROUD OF IT.

YOU HAVE TO REACH BACK AND PULL UP PEOPLE.

I'M A MENTOR, PROUD OF IT.

AND I'M PROUD THAT PEOPLE CALL ME AND ASK ADVICE.

I DON'T KNOW IF I GIVE GOOD ADVICE, BUT THEY KEEP ASKING.

>> WELL, IT'S BEEN QUITE A CAREER, CONGRATULATIONS.

AGAIN WE, WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE GOT YOU ON FOR WOMEN HISTORY MONTH.

ALWAYS A PLEASURE.

>> THANK YOU, GOOD TO SEE YOU.

>> "NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES", IS AN EFFORT THAT BRINGS VOICES FROM THE PAST TO LIFE, BY ALLOWING MUSEUMS TO TRANSLATE, TRANSCRIBE AND DIGITIZE RECORDINGS OR WRITTEN INTERVIEWS FROM DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES.

FAITH ABERCROMBIE REPORTS.

>> Reporter: VOICES FROM THE PAST.

ARE NOW BRINGING CONTEXT TO THE FUTURE THROUGH THE DORIS DUKES PROJECT.

THE DIGITIZATION OF 684 INTERVIEWS AT THE ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM IS GIVING PEOPLE A CHANCE TO HEAR THEIR ANCESTOR'S VOICE FOR THE FIRST TIME.

>> I THINK IT BRINGS A SENSE OF PRIDE KNOWING THAT THEIR RELATIVES AND GRANDPARENTS WERE PART OF THIS PROJECT.

>> Reporter: THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING.

>> IT'S KIND OF FRUSTRATING.

>> DORIS DUKES IS AN INDIVIDUAL.

>> WE ARE TALKING DECADE.

>> IN 1967 DECIDED TO FUND A VERY BROAD AMBITIOUS NATIVE HISTORY PROJECT.

>> THE TRIBE MAKES UP ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF THIS COLLECTION.

THROUGH THE PROJECT MANY OTHER COMMUNITIES WILL BE ABLE TO HEAR THE HISTORY THROUGH THE EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE PROCESS.

>> THE WORK IT TAKES TO MAKE SURE TRIBES HAVE CONSULTED IN THE APPROPRIATE WAY IS A LOT OF TYPE OF.

>> IF YOU ARE WORKING -- LOT OF TIME.

>> IF YOU ARE WORKING WITH SOMEONE FROM THE COMMUNITY YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF GETTING THE PERMISSIONS.

>> Reporter: THAT MEANS FOR EVERY INTERVIEW THE MUSEUM REACHES OUT TO LOVED ONES TO MAKE SURE THE MUSEUM RECEIVES PERMISSION.

>> OVER THE COURSE OF 50 YEARS SMALL EFFORT HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED WITH INDIVIDUAL GROUPS TO DISTRIBUTE COPIES OF THE RECORDING, TO INVESTIGATE THE PERMISSIONS.

BUT WITH NO DEDICATE STAFF IT HAS NEVER BEEN COMPLETED.

>> IT INCLUDES WORK FROM MEXICAN, CALIFORNIANS, AND ARIZONAN GROUPS, EACH LEADS TO CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND VALUE QUESTIONS.

>> JUST ABOUT HOW THINGS USED TO BE.

HOW MUCH IT HAS CHANGED OVER TIME.

>> AND NOW IT WILL BE CAPTURED AND NO LONGER STUCK IN THE PAST.

>> ONCE THE INTERVIEWS ARE DIJ TICED.

THEY'LL BE UPLOADED TO A PLATFORM FOR INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES.

THAT IS IT FOR NOW, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

YOU HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.

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