Submitted By Councillor Tina Abrams
Deb Haaland is a 35th generation New Mexican who is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, and also has Jemez Pueblo heritage. Council and Executives have supported her throughout her term as US Representative for New Mexico in the 1st Congressional District.
She began her term in 2019 until her resignation on March 16th. The US Senate confirmed her nomination by President Biden by at 51-40 vote on Monday March 15th. Her role and responsibility as the Secretary of the Department of the Interior is to oversee management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources, leading such agencies as Bureau of Land Management, the US Gerological Survey, Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service. On December 20, 202 Deb Haaland was quoted as “I’ll be fierce for all of us, for our planet and all of our protected land.”
The photo above was taken at a Deb Haaland fundraiser on February 12, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Seneca Nation has supported her in the past and she is holding a beaded Seneca Nation logo pin.
Photo: L-R: Councillor Tina Abrams, former Councillor Jeff Gill, US Secretary to the Interior Deb Haaland, Councillor Angie Kennedy.
