Deb Haaland 'Absolutely' Focused On Tackling Violence Against Native Women

In late 2018, before she was interior secretary and before she was a member of Congress, Deb Haaland sat in the back during a Senate committee hearing on missing and murdered Indigenous women.

One of the witnesses at the hearing, a Native American woman, talked about her sister disappearing. The woman described seeing her sister’s sweater on the side of the road, and reporting it to police as a clue to help figure out what had happened. When the woman went by that spot again two weeks later, the sweater was still there.

That story stayed with Haaland. It was a stark reminder that law enforcement and government officials just haven’t been dedicating enough resources or time to stopping what has been a horrifying, decadeslong crisis of Native women disappearing or being killed.

Now that she’s the interior secretary ― the nation’s first-ever Indigenous Cabinet secretary at any agency ― Haaland is in a position to tackle the situation head-on.

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