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Deb Haaland is the first Native American cabinet member under President Joe Biden. She spoke at the final night of the DNC. Watch her remarks.
Debra Anne Haaland (/ ˈ h ɑː l ə n d /; [1] born December 2, 1960) is an American politician serving as the 54th United States Secretary of the Interior. [2] A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S. representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 2019 to 2021 and as chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party from 2015 to 2017.
Jul. 30—Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's maternal grandparents were just 8 years old when they were removed from their parents' care and forced to live in a Catholic boarding school. Her great ...
The investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland found marked and unmarked graves at 65 of the more than 400 U.S. boarding schools where Native American children were forcibly ...
Haaland v. Brackeen, 599 U.S. 255 (2023), was a Supreme Court of the United States case brought by the states of Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana, and individual plaintiffs, that sought to declare the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) unconstitutional. In addition to Haaland v. Brackeen (Docket No. 21-376), [1] three additional cases were ...
The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative was created in June 2021 by Deb Haaland, the United States Secretary of the Interior, to investigate defunct residential boarding schools established under the Civilization Fund Act and that housed Native American children. [ 1][ 2] It is an effort to document known schools and burial grounds ...
Haaland's "Road to Healing" tour — one piece of a broader Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative which began in 2021 — is intended to address the intergenerational impacts of the boarding ...
Sharice Davids, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, and Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, made history in 2018 when they became the first Native American women elected to the U.S. Congress. [8] Both Davids and Haaland emphasized issues of Native sovereignty, healthcare, and environmental protection during their campaigns. [9]