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Soon after she was elected as one of America s first Indigenous congresswomen in 2018, New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland paid a visit to her constituents at the Pueblo of Sandia, just outside of Albuquerque. She came to the Pueblo for one of our feast days, said Stephine Poston, a tribal citizen and advocate for Native women leadership. And the young girls, a couple of them were following her around and she stopped to talk to them. It was an amazing thing to see and witness.
Poston said Haaland may as well have been a celebrity to those girls, but she didn t act like one.