Georgia O'Keeffe claimed New Mexico's desert "my country." But Pueblo peoples lived on the land long before the artist arrived. There's a push for a more complex view of O'Keeffe and her time there.

This small-sized city — Alamogordo, population 29,000 — rests in the northernmost portion of the Chihuahuan Desert, which is home to the White Sands National Park. The Chihuahuan is North America's ...