U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland set out four years ago on a historic journey as the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland talks to The Associated Press as she wraps up her tenure as he first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.

Deb Haaland, the country's first indigenous cabinet secretary, used her term at the Interior Department to make what activists say is irreversible impact in recognizing the painful history of the gove

Her service is marked by a focus on work in Indigenous communities and a search for balance between conservation and extraction on public lands.

In the final days before she departs, Deb Haaland has found time to reflect on her journey from the back roads of New Mexico to a sprawling office in the Stewart Udall Department of the Interior Building in Washington,