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The historic move comes as a result of an investigation by the Department of the Interior.
The staffer accused the United States of “making Jews the face of the American war machine.”
Nearly 70 Indigenous American tribes were consulted on the name changes.
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The Interior Department found that over 400 boarding schools in the United States forcibly assimilated Indigenous students, with over 500 of them dying at just 19 of those schools.
Department of the Interior releases proposal to raise costs for extraction on public land.
The news comes after the excavation of a mass grave at a Florida reform school and the discovery of the remains of more than 200 Indigenous children at a school in Canada.
The Interior Department’s Inspector General made the bombshell claim that protesters were forcibly removed from Lafayette Square so contractors could install fencing.
Ben Goldey, who departed Interior at the end of the Trump administration, later went to work for QAnon-curious Rep. Lauren Boebert.
Deb Haaland’s nomination is historic for the department, whose responsibilities include overseeing tribal lands.
He was tested before a Cabinet meeting with Trump on Wednesday, according to The Washington Post.
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