Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland speaks at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona on October 25, 2024.

Haaland is a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, an Indian nation headquartered in New Mexico. She is the first Native person to lead the Department of the Interior, the federal agency with the most trust and treaty responsibilities to tribes and their citizens.

Haaland was introduced by Miss Gila River Susanna Osife.