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Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community) visited Arizona State University’s Tempe campus Monday to talk with students and tour a new library space. As assistant secretary of Indian affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior, he was also there to discuss what the current administration is doing to help further the interests of Indian Country. “I know what it’s like to live in a community that often gets overlooked,” said Newland, who is a citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community (Ojibwe) in Michigan, near the Canadian border.
The Department of the Interior’s Road to Healing tour began in July 2022 in Anadarko, Oklahoma, with one goal in mind: for the federal government to document, for the first time, oral histories from Indian Boarding School survivors and their descendants. Over the course of 16 months, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) and Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community) traveled to 12 communities across the United States to hear testimonies from boarding school survivors and their descendants.
The White House Tribal Natons Summit began last Wednesday morning. During the afternoon the attendees heard from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in separate appearances. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Monday was not able to attend in-person.
Join Native News Online's publisher and editor, Levi Rickert, on Friday, November 10, 2023, for a conversation with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on the Road to Healing Tour. In this episode of Native Bidaské, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will discuss her insights from the 12 stops on The Road to Healing Tour. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), in collaboration with Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community), launched The Road to Healing Tour.