Micheal Trujillo

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'''Michael Trujillo also known as Miguel Trujillo (?-1989)''' was instrumental to the Native American Voting Rights ruling in 1948 and remains a mostly unknown hero.

== Early Life ==
Trujillo grew up at [[Pueblo of Isleta|Isleta Pueblo]]. His mother, Juanita Jaramillo Trujillo, was widowed when he was young. She was left to raise Miguel and her other son Bartolo, on her own. Despite his family's pleas for him to drop out of school and return to the pueblo to help his family, Trujillo attended the [https://ift.tt/2V5cRVL Albuquerque Indian School] and then the [[Haskell Indian Nations University|Haskell Institute]] in [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence, Kan]]. Eventually, Trujillo earned a bachelor's degree from the [[University of New Mexico]].

== Family ==
Michael Trujillo married to Ruchanda Paisano and had two children that went into the field of medicine, a daughter named Josephine Waconda and a son, Dr. Michael Trujillo who was the director of the [[Indian Health Service]] under President [[Bill Clinton]].

== Native American Vote in New Mexico ==
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== References ==

# [https://ift.tt/37COn92 Oxford, Andrew. “It's Been 70 Years since Court Ruled Native Americans Could Vote in New Mexico.” TCA Regional News, 2018, pp. TCA Regional News, Aug 3, 2018.]

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