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Deb Haaland

Deb Haaland is Joe Biden's pick for secretary of the interior

March 2023

  • Protesters outside the White House with banner reading stop the willow oil project

    Alaska’s Willow arctic drilling project is a climate turning-point. Biden must say no

    Kim Heacox
    If approved in full, the Willow project would mean the construction of 219 wells and hundreds of miles of pipelines

July 2022

  • Deb Haaland stands behind a Native American color guard ahead of the event in Anadarko on Saturday.

    Native American elders recall abuse at US government boarding schools

    Elders testify in Oklahoma about beatings, whippings and sexual abuse at institutions that sought to assimilate Native children

February 2022

  • In November 2021, Haaland declared "squaw" a derogatory term, and a popular California ski resort changed its name to Palisades Tahoe earlier this year.

    Hundreds of US geographic sites to be renamed to eliminate offensive words

    A task force will prioritize a list of replacement names and present them to the federal Board on Geographic Names later this year

January 2022

  • kayak in a lake reflecting pink and purple sky

    Biden administration revokes Trump-approved Minnesota mining lease

    A study that could lead to a 20-year ban on mining upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness was green lighted

June 2021

  • Deb Haaland during a visit to Bear Ears national monument in April.

    This land is your land
    Reverse Trump’s cuts to monument protections, Haaland asks Biden

    It isn’t clear yet if president will follow recommendation, but during his campaign he pledged to restore Utah’s monuments

April 2021

  • Joe Biden,Xavier Becerra,Antony Blinken,Lloyd Austin,Pete Buttigieg,Gina Raimondo<br>President Joe Biden speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Washington. From left, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    Biden’s A team: key figures pushing the president’s agenda in his first 100 days

  • U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland tours near ancient dwellings along the Butler Wash trail during a visit to Bears Ears National Monument Thursday, April 8, 2021, near Blanding, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)

    This land is your land
    ‘The earth holds so much power’: Deb Haaland visits sacred site Trump shrank

March 2021

  • FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2020, file photo, a bald eagle lands in a tree overlooking the Des Moines River in Des Moines, Iowa. The number of American bald eagles has quadrupled since 2009, with more than 300,000 birds soaring over the lower 48 states, government scientists said Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in a new report. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

    American bald eagles have made 'strong return' from brink of extinction

  • Deb Haaland, pictured here being sworn in last week, is charged with managing natural resources and federal lands that comprise one-fifth of the United States.

    This land is your land
    'A bold agenda': hopes rise for US climate change reversal as Deb Haaland sworn in

  • Deb Haaland, center, with Kamala Harris, right, during Haaland’s swearing-in for interior secretary in Washington DC on 18 March.

    'She's representing all of us': the story behind Deb Haaland's swearing-in dress

  • BESTPIX - Vice President Harris Holds Ceremonial Swearing In Of New Interior Secretary Haaland<br>*** BESTPIX *** WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 18: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (R) conducts the ceremonial swearing in of Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland as her daughter Somah Haaland holds the Bible in Harris’ ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on March 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. Haaland becomes the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

    Making history in style: Deb Haaland wears Indigenous dress at swearing-in

  • Deb Haaland confirmed as first Indigenous US cabinet secretary

  • Republicans used oil industry-backed study to criticize Deb Haaland

February 2021

  • U.S. Senate panel holds hearing on interior secretary nominee<br>Rep. Deb Haaland, D-NM, speaks during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior Secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S. February 23, 2021. Graeme Jennings/Pool via REUTERS

    How Deb Haaland's confirmation bid became a 'proxy fight' over fossil fuels

  • Deb Haaland during a Senate energy committee confirmation hearing on 24 February.

    Republicans criticizing Haaland's nomination have ties to fossil fuels

  • Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee Considers Debra Anne Haaland To Be Secretary Of Interior<br>WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 23: Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), nominee for Secretary of the Interior, testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Capitol Hill February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, Haaland would become the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. (Photo by Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images)

    Deb Haaland faces hostile Republican questioning in confirmation hearing

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visits Houston Food Bank, Texas - 20 Feb 2021<br>Editorial Use Only Mandatory Credit: Photo by Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (11768160d) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visits Houston Food Bank, Texas - 20 Feb 2021 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visits Houston after announcing that she has raised two million dollars for power crisis relief in the state of Texas.

    AOC criticizes Manchin over apparent targeting of Biden’s nominees of color

January 2021

  • Bears Ears National Monument under review<br>MEXICAN HAT, UT - JUNE 11: The sun sets over Bears Ears National Monument seen from the Moki Dugway June 11, 2017 north of Mexican Hat, UT. (Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

    This land is your land
    Hope grows that Biden will restore US national monuments shrunk by Trump

    Indigenous peoples say that resurrecting the two Utah monuments should be the start of a sea change in how US treats tribal nations

December 2020

  • On Sunday Kai Kahele will be sworn into Congress as part of the most diverse Democrat freshman classes in US history.

    Congressman-elect Kai Kahele represents an 'awakened generation' of Native Hawaiians

  • Portrait of New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-1)<br>New Mexico Congresswoman Debra A. Haaland poses for a portrait on a couch inside of her office, room 1237 at the Longworth office building on February, 28, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jason Andrew for The Guardian)

    Our unequal earth
    'I'll be fierce for all of us': Deb Haaland on climate, Native rights and Biden

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