‘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.
By Jan Cleere
Special to the Arizona Daily Star
By the time Mary Stacey arrived in Arizona territory, she claimed she had traveled across the continent six times. She often wrote to her mother about her adventures traveling from one military post to another and her mother sent Maryâs letters to the local newspaper for publication, particularly when her daughter headed across Arizonaâs weird and wonderful desert wilderness.
Petite, golden-haired Mary Henrietta Banks was born July 9, 1846, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. She married soldier May Humphreys Stacey on Dec. 9, 1869, while he was on leave from Arizonaâs Fort Mojave. May Humphreys had been part of the Beale Road expedition that brought camels into the territory in 1857, a project that failed but left camels roaming the desert for several years.