NEW: More than 120 tribal leaders plan to send a letter to Biden this week saying it's long past time for an Indigenous person to serve in a Cabinet position -- and plugging Native American Rep. Deb Haaland for Interior Secretary. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f…
“We’ve never had a Native American serve in any Cabinet position,” Bryan Newland, tribal chairman of the Bay Mills Indian Community in Michigan and lead on the letter, told me. "Rep. Haaland is more than qualified and capable of serving as secretary of interior."
I talked to @RepDebHaaland about tribal leaders urging Biden to make her his Interior Secretary.
It would be a historic, seismic shift to have a Native woman lead the dept w/ oversight of public lands.
“The symbolism alone, yes, it’s profound,” she said. huffpost.com/entry/deb-haal…
It would be a historic, seismic shift to have a Native woman lead the dept w/ oversight of public lands.
“The symbolism alone, yes, it’s profound,” she said. huffpost.com/entry/deb-haal…
The U.S. government has never had a Native American serve in any Cabinet position.
More than 120 elected tribal leaders plan to tell Biden this week that now is the time to change that, and urge him to put Haaland in his cabinet.
More than 120 elected tribal leaders plan to tell Biden this week that now is the time to change that, and urge him to put Haaland in his cabinet.
Haaland currently chairs a House panel with oversight authority for the Interior Dept.
“Whoever becomes secretary has an opportunity to combat climate change, to take this 25% carbon that our public lands are emitting right now and eliminate that." huffpost.com/entry/deb-haal…
“Whoever becomes secretary has an opportunity to combat climate change, to take this 25% carbon that our public lands are emitting right now and eliminate that." huffpost.com/entry/deb-haal…
Who knows who Biden will pick for Interior Sec.
But my god the justice served in putting a Native American woman in charge of the dept with so much responsibility for public land, tribal + enviro issues -- after the awful way the U.S. govt has treated Indigenous people.
But my god the justice served in putting a Native American woman in charge of the dept with so much responsibility for public land, tribal + enviro issues -- after the awful way the U.S. govt has treated Indigenous people.
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