“There’s a saying in Indian Country: either you are at the table, or you are on the menu.

“Appointments by the Biden administration now in the works would put American Indian and Alaska Native people very much at the table, including posts where Native people have never before served, with enormous influence over lands and waters and environmental policy across the U.S.”

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