Category: Deb Haaland

Tribes Divided Over 20-Year Halt to Oil and Gas Drilling in Chaco Canyon

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on June 2 revealed her department is withdrawing more than 336,000 acres of public land around Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico from oil and gas drilling for 20 years, building on an announcement from President Joe Biden in November 2021. “Today marks an important step in fulfilling President…


US Interior Secretary Commends Australia’s Efforts to Reconcile ‘Tragic History’ of Indigenous Abuse

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has met with Australia’s Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney discussing the road to reconciliation for Australia’s Aboriginal communities. Haaland, an Indigenous woman from the southwest United States, visited Canberra at the end of a weeklong trip to Australia. At a joint press conference with Haaland at Parliament House, Burney said,…


5 Places That Used Slur for Native American Women Are Renamed

Five unincorporated populated areas in the United States that used the word “squaw,” which is considered a derogatory term toward Native American women, have had their names changed. Renaming the sites—located in California, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas—completes a years-long process to remove the word from geographic sites across the country. The U.S. Department of the…


California Granted Millions in Federal Funding to Stretch Water Supplies

Millions of federal dollars are headed to California to help battle water shortages around the state, federal officials announced Aug. 18. Twenty-five projects will split $310 million in federal cash to increase water capacity by 213,000 acre-feet and support more than 850,000 people. Of the total, 20 projects are in California; the remaining five are…


US Government Admits It Used Schools as Tool to Erase Culture, Seize Native American Land: Report

Erasing culture, pulling children away from their parents, and disregarding the emotional needs of children. These tactics could be pulled from today’s headlines, but they are the tried-and-true education policies the United States has admitted to using for 150 years as a tool to force the assimilation of Native Americans, and specifically to acquire Indian…


Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Non-Indian Couple Denied Adoption of Indian Child

The Supreme Court has agreed to review the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), enacted by Congress in 1978 to prevent non-Indian families from adopting Native American children. On Feb. 28, the court granted the petition for review in the case, Haaland v. Brackeen, court file 21-376, which it consolidated with Cherokee Nation…


Interior Secretary Haaland Tells Wind Industry Wind Turbines May Soon Line U.S. Coasts

Speaking at a wind industry conference held by the American Clean Power Association, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced plans by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to arrange seven offshore lease sales along the U.S.’ coastlines by 2025, in line with the Biden administration’s executive order, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home…


Interior Secretary Haaland Tells Wind Industry Wind Turbines May Soon Line US Coasts

Speaking at a wind industry conference held by the American Clean Power Association, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced plans by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to arrange seven offshore lease sales along the U.S.’ coastlines by 2025, in line with the Biden administration’s executive order, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home…


Portrait of an Influential American Communist Who Weaponized the Peace Movement

One single communist can do more damage to the United States than a whole army. A leading example of this is Judith LeBlanc, a trained and disciplined communist, who labored to weaken the U.S. military and divide the country across racial lines. She did this by weaponizing the peace movement in order to disarm the…


Interior Secretary: No Plan ‘Right Now’ to Permanently Ban New Oil, Gas Leasing

WASHINGTON—U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on June 23 said at a House committee hearing that the Biden administration has no plan to permanently ban new oil and gas drilling on federal land. “Gas and oil production will continue well into the future,” Haaland said during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing. “I don’t think there…