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🌎 Native American history, culture & heritage
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🌎 Native American history, culture & heritage
Sharing stories, traditions & cultural insights with the worldwide audience. ✨
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You know that feeling when history finally catches up with the people who were here first? That's what happened in New Mexico on election night.
Picture Deb Haaland standing in front of her supporters, confetti in the air, smiling through tears. She wasn't just winning a governor's race. At 65, the Laguna Pueblo citizen and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior had just done something no Native American woman had ever done in 250 years of American statehood. She defeated Republican Gregg Hull to become New Mexico's next governor, and the first Native woman ever elected to lead a state. For a woman who once led the very department that had overseen federal Indian policy, the moment carried a weight you could feel in the room.
And here's the twist that makes it even bigger. Haaland isn't the first Pueblo leader to govern this land, she's the fifth, following figures like Po'pay from centuries ago. But she is the first to do it through a modern statewide vote. In America's 250th year, a daughter of Laguna Pueblo stepped into the governor's office not as an outsider, but as someone whose family has belonged to New Mexico far longer than the state itself has existed. What a homecoming.
Picture Deb Haaland standing in front of her supporters, confetti in the air, smiling through tears. She wasn't just winning a governor's race. At 65, the Laguna Pueblo citizen and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior had just done something no Native American woman had ever done in 250 years of American statehood. She defeated Republican Gregg Hull to become New Mexico's next governor, and the first Native woman ever elected to lead a state. For a woman who once led the very department that had overseen federal Indian policy, the moment carried a weight you could feel in the room.
And here's the twist that makes it even bigger. Haaland isn't the first Pueblo leader to govern this land, she's the fifth, following figures like Po'pay from centuries ago. But she is the first to do it through a modern statewide vote. In America's 250th year, a daughter of Laguna Pueblo stepped into the governor's office not as an outsider, but as someone whose family has belonged to New Mexico far longer than the state itself has existed. What a homecoming.
Mattel unveils new Barbie doll honoring Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte.
She is the first Indigenous American to earn a medical degree and become a doctor, and a proud member of the Omaha Tribe.
She is the first Indigenous American to earn a medical degree and become a doctor, and a proud member of the Omaha Tribe.
I am Lucy a young sculptor, this is my first work, please appreciate it ...
