: US: Joe Biden nominates Deb Haaland, a Native American, as Interior Department secretary #IndiaNEWS United States President-elect Joe R Biden on Thursday nominated Deb Haaland, a Congressional representative

US: Joe Biden nominates Deb Haaland, a Native American, as Interior Department secretary #IndiaNEWS
United States President-elect Joe R Biden on Thursday nominated Deb Haaland, a Congressional representative from New Mexico and a Native American, to lead the country’s Interior Department, AP reported. Haaland would become the country’s first Native American Cabinet secretary, and also the first indigenous person to lead the department, whose jurisdiction includes tribal lands. “It would be an honor to move the Biden-Harris climate agenda forward, help repair the government-to-government relationship with Tribes that the Trump Administration has ruined, and serve as the first Native American cabinet secretary in our nation’s history,??? Haaland said in a statement, according to The New York Times. The 60-year-old New Mexico representative is a member of the Laguna Pueblo, one of the 574 federally recognised tribes in the United States. Haaland once made history in 2018 as one of the first two Native American women ever elected to the US Congress. The role of interior secretary would put her in charge of an agency that employs more than 70,000 people across United States and oversees more than 20% of the nation’s public lands, including tribal lands, mineral wealth, wildlife and national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite, Reuters reported.Haaland, who likes to refer to herself as “a 35th-generation resident of New Mexico???, had campaigned against outgoing President Donald...Read more

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