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Casey Mitchell

  • The Nez Perce tribe's vice chairman Casey Mitchell proudly wears a bead necklace sewn by his mother as a college graduation present that depicts Chief Joseph. CREDIT: Kirk Siegler/NPR
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    For Nez Perce Tribe, And Across The West, Deb Haaland Faces A Long To-Do List At Interior
    Deb Haaland, the former Democratic congresswoman, made history Monday by becoming the first indigenous interior secretary. She's promising to begin repairing a legacy of broken treaties and abuses committed by the federal government toward tribes. It's one pillar of a long and ambitious to-do list of reforms the administration is planning at the sprawling agency that is the federal government's most direct contact with the nation's 574 federally recognized — and sovereign — tribes.