National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Search this
Extent:
.01 Linear feet
Container:
Map-case 14
Type:
Archival materials
Ephemera
Date:
2017
Scope and Contents:
A poster featuring artist Ernesto Yerena Montejano's artistic rendition of photographer Ayşe Gürsöz's photograph of Helen "Granny" Redfeather (Lakota) protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock Reservation. The poster features the title "We the Resilient Have Been Here Before," and was used during the Women's March on January 21, 2017.
Biographical / Historical:
Ernesto Yerena Montejano identifies himself as a Chicano/Native/Indigenous artist, and was born and raised in El Centro, CA. Yerena's work explores and challenges issues of identity, gender norms, and politics, and he regularly produces politically and socially conscious images. Yerena is the founder and curator of the Alto Arizona Art campaign as well as a founding member of the We Are Human campaign.
Provenance:
Donated by Kevin Gover in 2017.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Manuscripts and Ephemera collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
This collection includes ephemera from Deb Haaland's congressional campaign and time in office.
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains mailouts, official stationery, ephemera, and five color photographs from Deb Haaland's congressional campaign and time in the U.S. House of Representatives for New Mexico's 1st district.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged in one series.
Deb Haaland:
Debra Anne Haaland is a politician and member of the Laguna Pueblo community. She was born December 2, 1960, in Winslow, Arizona. Both of her parents served in the military and the family moved frequently before settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Haaland earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1994 and a Juris Doctorate in Indian Law in 2006, both from the University of New Mexico.
Haaland's career in public service began when she became the first woman elected to the Laguna Development Corporation Board of Directors. She also served as tribal administrator for San Felipe Pueblo. In 2012, she took an active part of Barack Obama's reelection campaign as New Mexico's vote director for Native Americans and served as the chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico Native American Caucus. She continued to move forward in her career, and in 2015 was elected as the chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party. She rebuilt the state party and raised enough money to pay off seven years of debt accrued by previous chairs.
In 2018, Haaland ran for U.S. House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district. She won with 59.1% of the vote in a Democratic Party sweep of every state and federal office that year. Haaland was one of the first two Native American woman to be elected to congress. She became the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives during a 2019 debate of voting rights. In 2020, she was reelected with 58.2% of the vote.
Haaland became the first Native American Cabinet secretary in 2021 when the senate confirmed her appoint by President Biden as Secretary of the Interior. She wore traditional Laguna Pueblo regalia and a ribbon skirt for her swearing in ceremony. She has worked to further many important causes, creating Department of the Interior units and task forces to address the crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans, investigate abuse in Indian boarding schools, and replace derogatory language.
Provenance:
Gift from the Congressional Office of Representative Debra A. Haaland, 2021
Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Topic:
United States Government--Legislative Branch Search this
Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Deb Haaland congressional collection; image #, NMAI.AC.412; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Photographs include three official congressional headshots, swearing in day with family and Nancy Pelosi, and State of the Union with the House Democratic Women's Working Group.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Deb Haaland congressional collection; image #, NMAI.AC.412; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
