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Image credit: Juan Labreche Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. In a historic first, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to tap Rep. Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, to lead the Department of the Interior. If confirmed by the Senate, Haaland would be the country’s first Native American Cabinet secretary. Fittingly, she’d do so as head of the agency responsible for not only managing the nation’s public lands, bu...

In Historic Move, Biden To Pick Native American Rep. Haaland As Interior Secretary By Nathan Rott  December 17, 2020 Updated at 9:37 p.m. ET In a historic first, President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Department of the Interior, his transition team announced Thursday evening. If confirmed by the Senate, Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, would be the country’s first Native American Cabinet secretary. Fittingly, she’d do so as head of the agency responsible for not only managing the nation’s public lands but also honoring its treaties wi...

Updated at 9:37 p.m. ET In a historic first, President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Department of the Interior, his transition team announced Thursday evening. If confirmed by the Senate, Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, would be the country’s first Native American Cabinet secretary. Fittingly, she’d do so as head of the agency responsible for not only managing the nation’s public lands but also honoring its treaties with the Indigenous people from whom those lands were taken. In a statement, the Biden-Harris transition team called Haal...

Rep. Deb Haaland would be the country's first Native American Cabinet secretary. She opposed many Trump environmental rollbacks on public lands and considers climate change "the challenge of our lifetime." In a historic first, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to tap Rep. Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, to lead the Department of the Interior. If confirmed by the Senate, Haaland would be the country's first Native American Cabinet secretary. Fittingly, she'd do so as head of the agency responsible for not only managing the nation's public lands, but honoring its t...

Updated at 9:37 p.m. ET In a historic first, President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Department of the Interior, his transition team announced Thursday evening. If confirmed by the Senate, Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, would be the country's first Native American Cabinet secretary. Fittingly, she'd do so as head of the agency responsible for not only managing the nation's public lands but also honoring its treaties with the Indigenous people from whom those lands were taken. In a statement, the Biden-Harris transition team called Haaland a...