American Indian Drumbeat

Let us turn the government land over to one of the first Americans to manage, now that we we have decimated not just the United States but also the whole planet. Deb Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, and if confirmed as the Secretary of the Interior, would be the first Indigenous person to manage the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education. Both are part of the Department of the Interior. She would also oversee more than 480 million acres of public lands and nearly a dozen federal agencies, including the National Park Service. Her nomination has been contentious, austensibly because of the fear that she will not be a friend to Big Oil, but that will be the case for any Biden nominee, so the next thought is that there is a racially motivated resistance to her nomination in the guise of protecting business interests. The Senate has forwarded her nomination onward, and there is hope that America will take steps in the direction of healing, which does not come with bipartisanship, because the McConnell directed GOP is firmly opposed to it, but with an eye towards history.