March 31, 2022

Advocate for Native children, Marie Reyna dies

Author: Rick Romancito

The last part of Marie Reyna’s life was a seemingly endless physical struggle with complications resulting from the rare autoimmune disease scleroderma. Now, she is at rest. Reyna, born June 11, 1956, died at sunset March 21, according to her daughter Aneva Concha.
“My momma gone … I love u my momma, look the sun peaked thru. I know that you flying high momma I still can't believe my momma gone,” she posted to Facebook the day of Marie’s passing.
During her life, she, like many people of Taos Pu...