Deb Haaland

New Mexico – and the United States are one step closer to having the first female Native American governor as former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland beat out her Democratic opponent Sam Bregman with 72% of the vote Tuesday night in the primary election.

Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has won the Democratic nomination for New Mexico governor, giving her a path to become the first Native American woman in the U.S. elected to the office.

Deb Haaland is running for the Democratic nomination for governor in the New Mexico state primary. She spoke to New Mexico PBS.

Haaland touts record of holding ‘Trump’s feet to the fire’; Bregman touts ‘getting things done’

The trauma created by Native American boarding schools has affected generations of people and this week, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition will hold listening sessions in Albuquerque for Indigenous elders to record their experiences.

On Thursday, Healthy Climate New Mexico will host a forum for all potential candidates for governor and lieutenant governor on health and climate issues.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland appealed to struggling families on Monday night amid donors and supporters at a fundraising event in Albuquerque.

As President Joe Biden wraps up his final weeks in office before a new Republican administration, New Mexico U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich is calling on the Biden administration to designate the Caja del Rio plateau a national monument.

Among Native American communities, people go missing and experience violence at disproportionately high rates. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) - the first Native cabinet secretary - has been working to implement the Not Invisible Act, which she helped pass as a Congresswoman in 2019. A commission traveled round the country hearing testimony from survivors, advocates, law enforcement and tribal leaders. It released a list of recommendations last November, and now the Departments of Justice and Interior have responded.

The new rule by the Bureau of Land Management will protect land considered sacred by Pueblos — and used by wildlife — from development by gravel miners.