by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 2, 2022 | Blackfeet, bureau of Indian Affairs, Deb Haaland, Department of Interior, Elouise Cobell
My friend Betsy Marston of “Writers on the Range” just wrote a wonderful tribute to Elouise Cobell. Elouise Cobell was, I am ashamed to say, a new name to me. Maybe I had heard it—I was vaguely aware of the lawsuit that consumed her working life. But I had not...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 21, 2020 | assimilation, Deb Haaland, Department of Interior, Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Momaday, Philip Deloria, Poet laureate, Silko, termination policy
Deb Haaland, President-elect Biden’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of the Interior, is a 35th generation New Mexican who is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna. She will be the first enrolled member of an American Indian Nation to serve as a Cabinet...
