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Indian Country's Presidential Expectations
Timothy Nuvangyaoma and Terry Rambler join the newscast to discuss what's on the table for the tribe's they represent with respect to the new presidential administration. Plus national correspondent Mary Annette Pember is on the show to talk about the pipelines that could be shut down by President Biden. Now that Joe Biden is our 46th president, what will his administration do that will positively impact tribes? In October, he traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, he met with tribal leaders and discussed his plans for Indian Country. Since then, he's tapped representative Deb Haaland to be the next secretary of the Interior. She has Laguna Pueblo and once confirmed, she will be the first Native American to head this department that oversees more than 500 federally recognized tribes and millions of acres in public lands. Biden has also said he is going to restart the tribal nations summit at the White house to hear from tribal leaders directly. This of course was started when Biden was vice-president to Barack Obama. Joining us today is Timothy Nuvangyaoma the chairman of the Hopi tribe and Terry Rambler, the chairman of the San Carlos Apache nation. Both were at that Phoenix meeting with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the heard museum. They'll be telling us more about the Biden administration's plans for Indian Country. When president Biden was on the campaign trail he promised one of the first things he would do as president would be to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. Mary Annette Pember is our national correspondent and her recent story, 'Canceling pipelines presents challenges', took a look at that campaign promise as well as other pipelines. She joins the show with more details behind this story.
