LAS CRUCES — Public Lands Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard hosted a community meeting Friday night as she contemplates a possible tribal land exchange that has generated local rumors and opposition .

It would be the third exchange to restore ancestral territory since Garcia Richard took office in 2019, following exchanges with the Santa Ana Pueblo and Fort Sill-Chiricahua-Warm Springs Apache tribe.

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