Deb Haaland

The U.S. Department of the Interior awarded Oklahoma an initial $25 million to help address legacy pollution caused by orphaned oil and gas wells left abandoned across the state.

Hundreds of survivors of Indian Boarding Schools gathered this weekend in a first-of-its-kind event in Anadarko, Okla. The federal government ran the boarding schools, and now they are listening. These survivors put faces to the statistics.

Oklahoma had the highest concentration of federally run Indian boarding schools according to a report released by the Department of Interior. The state is the first stop in the Road to Healing Tour. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will be at Riverside Indian School in Anadarko Saturday for the listening session.

First Lady Jill Biden and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will be visiting Oklahoma on Friday.

The state of Indian nations is strong, but the federal government still needs to “come to terms with the right of tribal Nations to chart their own course…