A complicated figure in native American Politics has resigned as the chairman of the All Publow Council of Governors and ended its external counseling work for the state of New Mexico after being arrested on suspicion of driving while drunk.
Records received by Associated Press Show James Mountain The council presented its resignation letter to the council on Tuesday, in a major advocacy group for 19 native American communities in New Mexico and another TexasHe said that it was immediately effective.
In addition, on Tuesday, Mountain finished his work as a contract consultant of the Department of State Indian Affairs, Jodi McGinis Porter, a spokesman for the New Mexico Government. Michel Lujan Grisham,
The Pojoaque Pueblo police arrested the mountain a week ago on suspicion of drunk driving in a tribal casino. He was held in a weekend in one Santa Fe According to an online booking log and pojoaque Pueblo Tribal Court, a field is a county jail after the decline in the Sobibribity Test.
The Associated Press on Friday left email and phone messages for the mountain to seek comments. The AP also left the messages with all the Publow Council of Governors. The council’s website still listed the mountain as the chairman on Friday.
It was not clear whether the mountain is formally charged, although the pojoaque Pueblo court says an argument has been set next week. AP presented a request to the court for a detailed judicial record for a judge.
Mountain’s appointment of Mountain as New Mexico’s Indian Affairs Cabinet Secretary under Lujan Grisham angered the original American advocates, working to address violence and missing persons within their communities.
He pointed out allegations of sexual harassment against Mountain, while Lujan Grisham’s office emphasized that the allegations against the mountain were rejected in 2010 when prosecutors said they did not have enough evidence to go for a test – and urged those who respected the judicial procedure to worry about their past.
Lujan Grisham also highlighted the leadership of Mountain in San ILLEFONSO Pubelo as a tribe governor, and his expertise in state and tribal relations. But the state Senate confirmation process for Mountain, and he left the cabinet post after less than a year of service to work as a senior policy advisor of Lujan Grisham for tribal matters.
Mountain abandoned the employment of the direct state government at the end of March, but settled in a similar role as a contract consultant – said McGinis Porter, until the end of Tuesday’s contract.
Mountain served as a governor in San ILLEFONSO Publow from 2006 to 2007 and then 2015 to 2017. He also run a consultation firm in recent years, about the water rights of the publo and the claim of Indian land claiming, in recent years.
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Associated press writer Susan Montya Bryan contributed to this report in Albuquerk, New Mexico.