Alaska Native Leader Tara Mac Lean Sweeney Becomes First Female Native Alaskan Nominated for Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs
October 17, 2017
October 17, 2017
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release:
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke applauded President Donald J. Trump's nomination of Tara Mac Lean Sweeney, a prominent Alaska Native leader and acclaimed businesswoman with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, to be the department's next Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Sweeney, a member of the Native Village of Barrow and the Inupia . . .
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke applauded President Donald J. Trump's nomination of Tara Mac Lean Sweeney, a prominent Alaska Native leader and acclaimed businesswoman with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, to be the department's next Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Sweeney, a member of the Native Village of Barrow and the Inupia . . .