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During the nomination hearings for Department of Interior Secretary a year ago, Deb Haaland was labeled a “radical” by some of her conservative opponents. At the same time, Indigenous people looked to the Laguna Pueblo citizen as a long overdue symbol of Native representation at the highest levels of federal government. Now that she has a one-year track record in office, we’ll discuss her progress on the issues that many Native people track. Those issues include oil leases on public lands, solving cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and tribal consultation.
GUESTS
Pauly Denetclaw (Diné) – political correspondent for Indian Country Today
Dr. Laura Harjo (Muscogee Creek Nation) – associate professor in Native American studies at OU and an affiliated faculty in the University of Oklahoma’s regional and city planning program
Amber Torres (Walker River Paiute) – tribal chairman of the Walker River Paiute Tribe
Break music: Coming In “Tewa” Song (song) Sidney Poolheco (artist) Heartfelt Songs (album)
Monica Carriaga says
That’s my Auntie Deb and I’m so proud of her. I work charity to stop human trafficking. Native Women are fetishized a lot. They are considered good house workers and quiet. I mean I can cook and I do take care of my man. But has anyone ever met a native woman without an opinion. Lol she’s so rad. I love her giving us hope. And I continue to work on ending sex trafficking in Las Vegas Nevada. It’s the highest sex trafficking in the world last I checked. So if I can cut it off here. We can end it almost everywhere. And Auntie Deb is so pretty. She was childhood friends with my daddy Adan Carriaga. On 15th Street in Old Town. Albuquerque New Mexico