Native rights attorney named to top federal post

 

February 11, 2021



ANCHORAGE (AP) - A former attorney at the Native American Rights Fund in Alaska and member of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma will become a top official in the U.S. Department of the Interior, the agency said in a statement Feb. 3.

Natalie Landreth will become deputy solicitor for land with the Interior Department after spending 17 years with the Native American Rights Fund, which represents tribes in treaty rights, public lands, aboriginal rights and environmental laws, the federal agency said.

Rep. Debra Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe in New Mexico, was nominated by Preside...



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