News of Rep. Deb Haaland’s (D-N.M.) historic selection as Interior Secretary has generated an emotional response from Native Americans eager to see representation in government.
President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday selected Haaland to head the department.
If confirmed, Haaland will be the first-ever Native American Cabinet Secretary and the first to helm the Department of the Interior, which has significant responsibilities to the nation’s 574 federally recognized tribes.
“I thought about my daughter and how this is a new normal for my daughter,” Nikki Pitre, executive director of the Center for Native American Youth and a member of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe told The Hill.
“Seeing what it’s like to have an indigenous woman in the highest levels of government — it’s hard to put into words now that I’m seeing it and get to experience it. It just feels incredibly overwhelming in the absolute best way.”
Haaland, a progressive, generated significant momentum for the position, backed by groups and lawmakers on the left as well as many tribes.
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Yup. Another affirmative action appointee by the useless idiot puppet of the DNC, Joe Biden. Joe is going to please everyone and heal all rifts in this Nation.