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July 27, 2019 In The News

U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland, who represents New Mexico's first district, encouraged Native Americans from across North America  to participate in politics during the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe's 35th annual Powwow.

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July 22, 2019 In The News

Last week President Trump told four of my colleagues to “go back” to where they came from — even though all are American citizens, and only one is an immigrant. But Mr.

July 10, 2019 In The News

The Green New Deal is one of the most progressive legislative proposals from the federal level in recent years. At a time of accelerating climate change, even with all its limitations the proposal remains the only serious national response to climate change put forth by either side of the legislative political divide.

June 28, 2019 In The News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Taxpayers and patients in the U.S. could save millions of dollars a year if they were able to pay what people in other countries do for insulin and other medications required by diabetics, a lawmaker said Friday.

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June 26, 2019 In The News

(KRQE)- Congresswoman Deb Haaland is introducing new legislation to rescind Medals of Honor for some U.S. troops. U.S. soldiers got the medals after participating in the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre when hundreds of Lakota Sioux men, women, and children were killed.

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June 26, 2019 In The News

BISMARCK– In 2016, Debra Haaland cooked green chili and tortillas at the Standing Rock Sioux camps pitched against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Bringing food was her traditional way of contributing to the fight against the $3.8 billion pipeline.

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June 25, 2019 In The News

On a day the first Medal of Honor was bestowed on a living Iraq War recipient, lawmakers and members of the Sioux nation announced their plan to take away those awarded for what became known as The Wounded Knee Massacre.

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June 25, 2019 In The News

To be awarded a Medal of Honor in the United States, a person must display “great personal bravery or self-sacrifice.” For the past 129 years, that stipulation has effectively included the mindless slaughter of Indigenous people.

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June 23, 2019 In The News

U.S. Rep. Debra Haaland said her portrait session with Bismarck ambrotypist Shane Balkowitsch was amazing, amazing, amazing.

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