Route 66 Series Explores Native American Exclusion from Tulsa to Santa Fe

Le Monde's six-part series « Sur la Route 66, pouls de l'Amérique » devotes its third installment to Native American communities along the historic highway, contrasting an ultraconservative Oklahoma marked by racism with a New Mexico where a Native American woman could be elected state governor. Voices along the route insist on a past that white America still largely prefers to ignore, with one quoted speaker stating that Native Americans existed well before Route 66, across a thousand generations. The piece travels from Tulsa to Santa Fe, framing the road as a pulse of the country and centering those it calls the excluded of history. No exhibition, institution or art-market event is described; the material is a reported feature on memory, representation and political geography.