Vision and Mission

Vision:

New Mexico's Native American citizens will have the resources necessary to improve their quality of life and maintain their cultures and languages through collaborative, productive and lasting government-to-government relationships between the State of New Mexico and Indian tribes, nations and pueblos as well as through effective participation of Native Americans in all aspects of state government.

Mission:

As a cabinet-level department, the Indian Affairs Department (IAD) is the lead coordinating agency in New Mexico state government for ensuring effective interagency and state-tribal government-to-government relations. The IAD reinforces tribal governmental efforts to ensure that Native American concerns and needs are addressed in state policy making decisions; effectively manages, and facilitates ways to increase and leverage, state resources to benefit Native Americans; and successfully collaborates with national, tribal, state and local agencies, entities, and organizations.