What Deb Haaland's Appointment Would Mean for Native Americans

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 3, 2020

Julian Brave NoiseCat, vice president of policy and strategy with Data for Progress, narrative change director of the Natural History Museum, and a fellow of the Type Media Center, NDN Collective, and the Center for Humans and Nature, talks about the potential for Rep. Deb Haaland to be appointed the first-ever Native American Cabinet Secretary, and what it would mean for Native American communities and environmental policy.

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