“It was significant that you have a Native American woman who will be in a position to really oversee, if you will, those lands that are part of their homeland,” she told pool reporters Monday. “There is clearly that sense of pride, but as important as that is, it is more important that a woman who has achieved this historic position then lives up to it.”
O’Loughlin said she hopes the Biden administration’s Interior Department will take a different approach to tribal consultations than its predecessor, which she said did not do an adequate job of listening to tribal leaders.
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