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After five centuries, a Native American with real power

Timothy Egan is a columnist for The New York Times. The views expressed here are solely his own. ....

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Egan: After five centuries, a Native American with real power

Egan: After five centuries, a Native American with real power
Timothy Egan
In the American West, a ration of reverence is usually given to the grizzled Anglo rancher who rises at a public hearing and announces that his people have been on the land for five generations.
So what are we to make of Rep. Deb Haaland, a citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, who says that her people have been in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico for 35 generations dating to the 13th century?
“Native history is American history,” she told me. “Regardless of where you are in this country now, you’re on ancestral Indian land, and that land has a history.” ....

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Opinion | After Five Centuries, a Native American With Real Power

Jan. 1, 2021
In the American West, a ration of reverence is usually given to the grizzled Anglo rancher who rises at a public hearing and announces that
his people have been on the land for five generations.
So what are we to make of Representative Deb Haaland, a citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, who says that
her people have been in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico for 35 generations dating to the 13th century?
“Native history is American history,” she told me. “Regardless of where you are in this country now, you’re on ancestral Indian land, and that land has a history.” ....

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