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Deb Haaland’s cabinet job changes the game for Native communities
The Department of the Interior has often prioritized the needs of plants, animals and colonists over the Native people it oversees. That could change under its first Native leader.
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Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., listens during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior Secretary, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)
I remember the last time I met with Deb Haaland.
It was November of 2019. A group of Snoqualmie tribal leaders had traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the agency within the Department of the Interior tasked with managing millions of acres of land held in trust by the federal government for American Indian tribes.
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