As interior secretary, Deb Haaland will lead an agency that discriminated against her Simon Moya-Smith © Provided by NBC News
For many Native Americans, the Department of the Interior has been known as a back-alley haven for shills, thieves and crooked, money-hungry American Indian-hating cronies.
But now, we’ll have one of our own stepping in to run the rats out and right old wrongs.
On Thursday, President-elect Joe Biden selected Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., to be his nominee for the next secretary of the Department of the Interior. Haaland, who is Laguna Pueblo and one of the two first Native American women elected to Congress in 2018 Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., a Ho-Chunk, was also elected that year will not only be the first Native to lead that department. She will also be the first Native American to hold the position of a Cabinet secretary in the history of the United States.
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