ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) returned to her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico for a listening session on the 11th stop of The Road to Healing on Sunday. Before serving as Interior secretary, Haaland repr.
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday was elected 56th speaker of the House after three weeks of complete chaos that brought work of the House to a standstill. The vote on Wednesday was 220-209 with all Republicans voting for Johnson and all Democrats voting for their House leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). Former Speaker McCarthy (R-CA) was voted out of the post on October 3, 2023.
ANCHORAGE—Braving frigid temperatures, members of Alaska Native communities took the concept "it takes a village to raise a child" to a different level on Sunday, Oct. 22, when a crowd of more than 500 gathered to raise a totem pole dedicated to healing from the Indian boarding school era. U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland joined the crowd as it raised The Boarding School Totem Pole after Sunday's "Road to Healing" listening session at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage.
Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), the first Alaska Native to serve in the U.S. Congress, on Saturday was greeted with a standing ovation when she arrived at the podium to address the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) convention in Anchorage, Alaska. The room at the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center in downtown Anchorage, Alaska was filled with love and adoration for Peltola, whose husband Eugene "Buzzy" Peltola died in a plane crash last month on September 12. Peltola spent over three weeks to be with her family and recntly returned to her work as a congresswoman.
The tenth listening session of the year-long Road to Healing tour of Native communities made it's stop in Anchorage, Alaska on Sunday, October 22, 2023. The listening session, led by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) and Assistant Secretary - Interior Affairs Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community), was part of a year-long series launched in July 2022 to provide Native Americans affected by the federal Indian board school system an opportunity to share their experiences and the effects on their communities.