A Native Triumph.

ON A DECEMBER SATURDAY, AT A PRESS CONFERENCE broadcast from the city of Wilmington, in a state named for an English lord - Thomas West, the 12th Baron De La Warr, who rebuilt Jamestown in 1610 after a period of starvation and cannibalism and was appointed captain-general and governor for life of the Virginia colony - President-elect Joe Biden introduced his climate team of White House officials and cabinet secretaries. Even before Biden was elected, tribal leaders, environmentalists, and progressive activists believed Haaland would make a wonderful interior secretary because of who and what she stood for. Against the many objections raised to her candidacy - that she was too inexperienced or too liberal, that she wasn't close enough to Biden, or that House Democrats couldn't afford to lose her seat - the community and coalition behind Haaland would not be denied. [Extracted from the article]