It’s a big gas and oil state. The Fix’s Eugene Scott analyzes some of President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet picks and why he is under ongoing pressure to make more diverse picks. Years later, in 1972, several hundred tribal activists took over Interior Department headquarters in Washington to draw attention to their plight. Charles Curtis, a Republican who was vice president from 1929 to 1933 under President Herbert Hoover, was the first person of Native American ancestry to serve in a Cabinet. “She asked what I needed and what the tribe needed,” said Jodi Archambault, a former special assistant to Barack Obama for Native American affairs and a member of the tribe.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2020 19:18 UTC