Deb Haaland, the country's first indigenous cabinet secretary, used her term at the Interior Department to make what activists say is irreversible impact in recognizing the painful history of the government's treatment Native Americans
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during an interview inside the Department of the Interior headquarters in Washington, D.C., in October 2024.in Washington D.C. this week, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reflected on President Biden's formal apology last October for the U.S. government's historic assimilation policies and its Indian boarding school system. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, children were separated from families, with no full accounting of those who went missing or died.
As I stood next to the president, I felt the power of our ancestors who persevered through unthinkable odds so that we could all be there that day," she said. But it's for sure historic. She's presided over the allocation of unprecedented billions of dollars in federal money for tribes going to everything from water and schools to improvements in public safety addressing an alarming
Maxim, a fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, co-wrote a congressionally-funded report after the November election warning that it's likely now going to be up to states to continue Haaland's reforms. Maxim says he based much of that analysis by looking back on the first Trump term. "My experience as governor and working with the tribes and working with local communities in North Dakota, whether it's grazing associations, county commissioners, mayors, rural residents, I think the consultation is key," Burgum said.A push for more oil and gas drilling and mining on federal and tribal land is seen as a certainty under the new Trump administration.
"I wish that she would have came out and visited our homelands when she was invited," Keen says."And I wish that she would have taken the time to learn about our tribes and not been so afraid of somebody being mad at her."The Department didn't respond to a request for a comment on the gaming dispute.
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