Included in this report on the New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs are brief sections dealing with: the Agency's background; past projects and future goals; the Research and Statistics Center; projects under consideration; and the Agency's Tribal Liaison Officer, Tribal Relations Specialist; and Planner. Cited as major Agency accomplishments during the 1975-77 period are: publication of a study titled "Taxation and Indian Sovereignty"; sponsorship of the "New Mexico Tribal Governments State Administration Seminar"; and service on the Cochiti Area Road Committee. Implemented in February of 1977, the Office's Research and Statistics Center is described in terms of its five current projects: employment counseling survey; market survey for the Navajo Shiprock Agency; "Handbook of State Assistance to Indian Reservations"; 1980 census planning (separate tribal data); and development of a data and general reference library. Subjects under consideration for the coming two years are identified as: periodical reports and newsletters; cultural awareness programs; projects to help arts and crafts people; joint statistical studies with the Division of Indian Education; data updated on State expenditures on the taxation of Indian tribes; census planning; library increases; better employment counseling; assistance with grant applications; library of cultural awareness photographs; computerized data retrieval system and word processor; and methods for handling problems that affect tribal or state government or both. (JC)