Finally, after four years of nothing but lying, race-baiting, and removing much-needed federal protection of land and wildlife,  we have a president who cares about the Indigenous land we stand on and the people who were slaughtered on it by the colonizers.  Monday, during the White House Tribal Nations Summit, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing the departments of Justice, Interior, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services to create a “comprehensive strategy to improve public safety and justice for Native Americans and address the “epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous people.”  Biden additionally proposed a 20-year ban on federal oil and gas leases in Chaco Canyon and surrounding areas in northwest New Mexico, a sacred tribal site that contains valuable oil and gas.  Read more