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‘We recognize that our country was built on Indigenous land’: Joe Biden inaugural welcome event
Posted: Sunday, January 17, 2021
As the first guest for the event, Haaland acknowledged Washington, D.C., as the homelands of the Nacotchtank, or Anacostan, people. She also paid tribute to the tribal nations that have served as stewards of America s land and resources for centuries. We acknowledge the legacy of this land s original inhabitants and find inspiration from the lands and the waters, said Haaland, who has been nominated to serve as Secretary of the Interior in Democratic President-elect Joe Biden s administration. We recognize that our country was built on Indigenous land and we pay tribute to the Indigenous nations who have stewarded these lands these waters and animals for centuries and who have made great sacrifices in the building of our country, said Haaland, who is a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, an Indian nation with homelands in New Mexico.
The FBI and other federal agencies have warned of the potential for future violence leading up to Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, as white supremacists and other extremists seek to exploit frustration among Trump supporters who have bought into his falsehoods about electoral fraud