To some, she's New Mexico politician Deb Haaland. To Native Americans, she's Auntie Deb. And Auntie just took the helm at the 172-year-old federal agency that most closely oversees Native affairs.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to hold a Cabinet position, says her grandparents and mother were among those shipped off to these schools: "I understand that history ...
For more than a century, from the early 1800s to the 1960s, Indigenous children were taken from their tribes -- sometimes forcibly from their homes -- to attend government assimilation boarding ...
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, left, speaks at a press conference with U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt, center, and U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt, right, on ...