{"id":1484559,"date":"2022-05-19T14:45:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T18:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484559"},"modified":"2022-05-19T14:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T18:45:43","slug":"bidens-interior-secretary-refers-to-the-us-capital-as-the-ancestral-homelands-of-native-american-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-interior-secretary-refers-to-the-us-capital-as-the-ancestral-homelands-of-native-american-tribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Interior Secretary Refers To The US Capital As The \u2018Ancestral Homelands\u2019 Of Native American Tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-interior-secretary-refers-to-the-us-capital-as-the-ancestral-homelands-of-native-american-tribes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484559&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Interior Secretary Deb Haaland referred to the nation\u2019s capital as the \u201chomelands\u201d of two Native American tribes, not \u201cWashington, D.C.\u201d during a Senate hearing Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChairman Manchin, Ranking Member Barrasso, and members of the committee, it\u2019s an honor and privilege to be here on the ancestral homelands of the Anacostan and Piscataway people to speak with you today on behalf of the president\u2019s 2023 budget,\u201d Haaland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.senate.gov\/hearings\/2022\/5\/full-committee-hearing-to-examine-the-president-s-fy-2023-budget-request-for-the-department-of-the-interior\">said<\/a>\u00a0in her opening remarks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland\u2019s statement appeared to diverge from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.senate.gov\/services\/files\/D2A494FD-818C-4F2E-B3FB-10123B2EA907\">written remarks<\/a> she had planned to deliver at the hearing. There was no mention of the capital being the homeland of the two tribes in her published statement. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/biden-administration-jennifer-granholm-deb-haaland-oil-gas-energy\/\">(RELATED: \u2018I\u2019m Not Going To Respond To That\u2019: Biden Cabinet Officials Can\u2019t Get Their Story Straight On Energy Production)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Anacostans were a tribal people that resided in the village of Nacotchtank, located in the Washington, D.C. area, before European explorers made landfall in the 17th century, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/articles\/native-peoples-of-washington-dc.htm\">according<\/a> to the National Park Service. The Piscataway people were the most powerful of the roughly 40 tribes that lived in present-day Maryland between the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River at the time, a 2018 Maryland Department of Natural Resources report <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/10\/01\/piscataway-conoy\/\">showed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cColonization was tumultuous for the Piscataway,\u201d the report stated.\u00a0\u201cAlready facing aggressive incursions by the Susquehannocks from the north, they began to slowly lose control of their ancestral lands to settlers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe, is the first Native American to lead the Department of the Interior (DOI), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/secretary-deb-haaland\">according<\/a> to her bio. She is a 35th generation New Mexican.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she has led an effort to hire more Native Americans for positions across the agency and beyond just the Bureau of Indian Affairs, E&#038;E News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/native-american-hires-reflect-changing-interior-leadership\/\">reported<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never seen so much Native leadership,\u201d Kevin Washburn, a former DOI assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, told E&#038;E News at the time. \u201cWe have seen less pigeonholing of Natives into the obvious positions, such as in Indian Affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DOI didn\u2019t provide TheDCNF with an on-the-record comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Secretary Deb Haaland referred to the nation\u2019s capital as the \u201chomelands\u201d of two Native American tribes, not \u201cWashington, D.C.\u201d during a Senate hearing Thursday.\u201cChairman Manchin, Ranking Member Barrasso, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":1484588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}