SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Native American attorney who oversaw New Mexico’s Indian Affairs Department has been tapped to serve as a top policy adviser to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland addresses the National Congress of Indians in Washington, D.C. in February 2014. (Photo/ Levi ...
Deb Haaland had just begun her second term in the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2021, elected from her native New Mexico. She was one of the first Indigenous women to be elected to Congress ...