{"id":2457,"date":"2021-03-18T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2021-03-28T20:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T02:00:02","slug":"unm-alumna-becomes-first-native-american-secretary-of-the-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2021\/03\/18\/unm-alumna-becomes-first-native-american-secretary-of-the-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"UNM Alumna Becomes First Native American Secretary of the Interior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UNM alumna and New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haalandwas recently confirmed as the newest member of U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s Cabinet.<br><br>The congresswoman is a 35th generation New Mexican, and a member of the Pueblo of Laguna with Jemez Pueblo heritage as well. Haaland&nbsp;graduated from UNM in 1994 with a degree in English, and went on to graduate from UNM School of Law in 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/deb-haaland-confirmation-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/deb-haaland-confirmation-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/deb-haaland-confirmation-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/deb-haaland-confirmation-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/deb-haaland-confirmation-2-816x612.jpg 816w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/deb-haaland-confirmation-2.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Representative Deb Haaland, D-N.M., is sworn in before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior Secretary (Jim Watson\/Pool via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Haaland will lead the federal agency that oversees nearly 500 million acres of surface land &#8211; a majority of the nation\u2019s public lands, waterways, wildlife preserves, national parks and mineral wealth \u2013 a role that has tremendous significance for the 574 federally recognized tribes. Read more about Deb Haaland&#8217;s historic confirmation through the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.unm.edu\/news\/historic-confirmation-unm-alumna-deb-haaland-becomes-first-native-american-interior-secretary\" target=\"_blank\">UNM Newsroom<\/a> and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailylobo.com\/article\/2021\/03\/haaland-takes-reins-at-interior-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Daily Lobo<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNM alumna and New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haalandwas recently confirmed as the newest member of U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s Cabinet. The congresswoman is a 35th generation New Mexican, and a member of the Pueblo of Laguna with Jemez Pueblo heritage as well. Haaland&nbsp;graduated from UNM in 1994 with a degree in English, and went on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}