In an exit interview with HuffPost, the interior secretary celebrated progress in protecting public lands and righting past wrongs against Native Americans.

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It was the summer of 2023 and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was hiking the Bright Angel Trail, the most popular path at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Later that day she would join President Joe Biden as he signed a proclamation establishing the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument that would bring nearly one million acres under federal protection.

Haaland brought with her many other Indigenous people who served as her senior advisors, communications specialists, and across the Interior’s various offices — including the first Indigenous person to lead the National Park Service.