Deb Haaland

The US government has reached an agreement wit to help restore salmon populations in the Upper Columbia River Basin. The agreement will fund more than 200 million dollars towards the project over the next 20 years.

As a part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, the Department of Interior and the National Endowment for the Humanities will be digitizing records that document the experiences of those who survived such schools, as well as their descendants. $4 million from the NEH will also support an oral history project with those people.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is launching an Indian Youth Service Corps with new guidelines. The corps was established in 2019 as part of an amendment to the Public Lands Corps Act. Now, Haaland has published actual guidelines. One of its goals is fostering natural resource and land stewardship skills for young tribal members aged 16 to 30, or 35 if you’re a veteran.

Daniel Tom was the target of racism and bullying growing up in Mesa, Ariz. Decades later here in the small mountain town of Buena Vista in south-central Colorado, life is easier, quieter. Still, there are at least a few signs that make him feel unwelcome – actual signs that read “Chinaman Gulch.”

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland faced lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday as she advocated for an $18 billion budget increase for her department next year. The money would go towards advancing renewable energy projects, expanding wildland fire programs and boosting public safety on reservations.

Representatives praised budget increases to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and efforts to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. But some wanted more funding for water infrastructure and others questioned Biden's plans on mining and fossil fuel production.

The Biden administration will restore the White House Council on Native American Affairs, an interagency initiative that coordinates federal services...

Last week, the Biden administration unveiled its budget plan for managing federal public lands, and it contains big funding increases that reflect the…

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland met with tribal and Utah state leaders Wednesday in San Juan County to talk about Bears Ears National Monument. She’s visiting southern Utah to meet with stakeholders before issuing a recommendation on the monuments’ fate.

Last month, Deb Haaland made history as the first Indigenous person ever confirmed by the Senate to serve in a president's cabinet. In her first...