I continue to think. U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is a badass.

The article doesn't dwell on it, but I imagine it's a real challenge for her as well to lead an organization responsible for extraction of resources from public lands.

Gift article:

https://wapo.st/46RBzLR

#DebHaaland

Uranium and gold mining are tearing up the sacred He Sapa — the Black Hills of South Dakota. Tell U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to suspend all mining claims in the Black Hills until treaty rights to ancestral homelands are respected and restored. Mni wiconi — water is life.

#LakotaLaw
#DebHaaland
#BlackHills
#mining

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/black-hills-mining

June 21, 2023

Interior Sec. Haaland Supports Digging into #Paiute Massacre Site for Lithium

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Raided and terrorized by police, their Eagle Feathers taken, now Interior Sec. #DebHaaland has broken their hearts, imperiling future generations. Ox Sam Camp at the Paiute Massacre Site. The People of the Ghost Dancers

"Interior Sec. Deb Haaland supports digging into the burial places of massacred Paiutes for #lithium -- and said she is doing the right thing.

"AP reports that Haaland, whose department oversees Thacker Pass, said that while she supports
the right to peaceful #protests, her agency is in favor of the mine because 'the need for our clean
energy economy to move forward is definitely important.'

"Haaland told The Associated Press that when her agency inherits a project from a previous
administration, 'It’s our job to make sure we’re doing things according to the science, to the law.'
However, the Interior Department and a federal judge are violating federal laws that protect Native
American religious and burial places; #endangered species and their habitat; and the #groundwater."

#CulturalGenocide #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericanNews #ThackerPass #Enviroment #EndangeredSpecies #WaterIsLife

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/06/interior-sec-haaland-supports-digging.html

by #LyricAquino in @grist:

"The proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument would convert 1.1 million acres of public land surrounding Grand Canyon National Park into a National Monument, providing significant protections to tribal water sources, delicate ecosystems, and cultural sites, while curtailing the impacts of uranium mining — a proposal tribes in the area have been fighting for since 1985. Baaj Nwaavjo means 'where tribes roam' in the Havasupai language, I’tah Kukveni translates to 'our footprints' in Hopi."

https://grist.org/indigenous/tribes-call-on-haaland-to-push-increased-protections-for-the-grand-canyon/

#Navajo #GrandCanyon #NationalMonument #DebHaaland #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #climate

I am so happy to hear about this!!! Thank you everyone who supported us, #IndigenousAmericans, and helped in the fight against the genocide of our culture and the future of my ppl!!! #DebHaaland you are so awesome! TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO BE INDIGENOUS!!!

#SaveICWA #ProtectICWA #ICWA #WeAreStillHere

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jun/15/supreme-court-american-indian-child-welfare-act-civil-rights-

“The goal and necessary step forward is to build Diné and Pueblo solidarity,” said Janene Yazzie. “They don't deserve to have their poverty weaponized against them and have their lack of access to information weaponized against them, to use them as pawns for oil and gas interests.”

#NavajoNation #ChacoCanyon #Pueblo #DebHaaland #oilandgas

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/06/12/interior-secretary-deb-haaland-cancels-chaco-event-protests/70314019007/

Some think #debhaaland announcing the 10-mile buffer around #ChacoCanyon is a good thing for the environment. Yes, but there is also to consider say they ignored by Haaland.
Last month, Navajo lawmakers passed a bill opposing any buffer zone - after they tried negotiating a 5-mile zone instead last year.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/06/07/navajo-officials-say-chaco-canyon-drilling-ban-hurts-local-residents/70295583007/

The #Biden regime wants you #starving and #dead

https://newstarget.com/2023-05-04-biden-official-poverty-good-prevent-climate-change.html

#poverty #climatechange #DebHaaland

The #Biden regime wants you #starving and #dead

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-04-biden-official-poverty-good-prevent-climate-change.html

#poverty #climatechange #DebHaaland

What a thorny water management issue. Declining resources, many (many stakeholders) multiple legal jurisdictions, and legacy water use rights going back a century...

I don't envy #DebHaaland.

#ColoradoRiver cities and farms face ‘dire’ tradeoffs with new federal review

https://wapo.st/3UuRiL5

Interior Secretary #DebHaaland faces criticism after the #BidenAdministration OK’d the contentious Willow oil project in #Alaska. Haaland, the first Native American Cabinet member, didn’t sign the approval order but released a video defending the decision.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-climate-haaland-willow-alaska-oil-2ed1969b5a6e79bdbbae33f1049c8d41

@TXsharon thanks to corrupt #DebHaaland who’s really only working for #BigOil #BigAg #BigDairy Instead of supporting #Biden’s agenda, she’s been actively undermining him. Here’s a petition to sign. (There are many, one just has to google. Sign them all!) https://secure.alaskawild.org/a/willowjulycomment-pata

Thank you #DebHaaland
#BoundaryWaters #Mining #WaterProtectors
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/climate/mining-ban-boundary-waters-copper.html

Pristine #BoundaryWaters protected from massive-scale environmentally catastrophic sulfide mining by #DebHaaland and the U.S. Dept. of the Interior! 👉 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-administration-boundary-waters-20-year-mining-ban_n_63d28ca8e4b0c2b49adad587

Good thing #StinkyZinke is not still in that Cabinet position! #ElectionsMatter

#DebHaaland #SquawPeak #Renaming #Indigenous
Piestewa Peak in Phoenix used to be Squaw Peak. Fixed some years back by naming it after a Hopi woman who died early on during the Iraq invasion. Glad to see this happening more widely:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-renames-5-sites-used-racist-slur-native-woman-rcna65893

At least 120 wolves have been killed in #Montana since September, including 4 #wolves killed near #Yellowstone National Park's northern border. Demand action from #DebHaaland to #RelistWolves.

📱 202-208-3100

#ProtectOurWildlife 🐺 🌿

We stopped at Arches Nat’l Park. At the entrance I was all #debhaaland is my auntie. I’m here to offer my prayer. 💗😁 Thank you staff for being so cool. Arches Nat’l Park U.S. Dept. of the Interior @interior Proud of her. #NativeVote

We stopped at Arches Nat’l Park. At the entrance I was all #debhaaland is my auntie. I’m here to offer my prayer. 💗😁 Thank you staff for being so cool. Arches Nat’l Park U.S. Dept of the Interior @interior We voter for her.

https://youtu.be/uHJl7PxH8NQ

“The fact that I’m standing here today is a testament to that fact. I am here. We are here. And we are not going anywhere.” - Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior at Alcatraz Island.

#Mastodon #History #Thanksgiving #Histodon #DebHaaland

WARNING: RADICAL WITH COMMUNIST TIES NOMINATED FOR SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

https://www.worldviewreport.com/

#secretaryoftheinterior #debhaaland #communism