Deb Haaland

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.

President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team named outgoing North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the agency that manages the nation’s natural and cultural resources.

President Joe Biden declared the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in Pennsylvania on Monday. It acknowledges the decades of trauma inflicted on tribal communities throughout the U.S. and in Arizona, which had the second-highest number of the schools in the nation.

President Joe Biden plans to issue an historic apology on Friday for the nation's 150-year campaign to assimilate Indigenous children by taking them away to Indian boarding school system.

Top federal officials traveled to Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Thursday to announce a $20 million grant to the Hopi Nation for a solar power project and 12 miles of powerlines that will bring electricity to nearly 900 homes.

After more than five decades of recovery efforts, the Apache trout has been removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened species.

The investigation found marked and unmarked graves at 65 of the more than 400 U.S. boarding schools where Native American children were forcibly assimilated into white society.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland spoke at a Women for Biden-Harris event in Flagstaff Friday ahead of the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe versus Wade.

The rule from the Bureau of Land Management will allow public property to be leased for restoration in the same way that oil companies lease land for drilling.

The Interior Department will allocate more than $120 million to tribal governments to fight the impacts of climate change. The funding is designed to help them adapt to climate threats, including relocating infrastructure.