18th lifetime tribal Chief Dr. Marilynn Malerba, first female in that office in the modern history of the Mohegan Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut.
From Sicangu REDCO Community Development email,
…Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen became the first person in her role to visit a Native Nation … accompanied by [Mohegan lifetime] Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, who had been named as the next US Treasurer just hours earlier by President Biden. The visit also coincided with the Treasury’s announcement of the establishment of a new Office of Tribal and Native Affairs, which will report to the Treasurer and coordinate Tribal relations throughout the Department.
“With this announcement, we are making an even deeper commitment to Indian Country,” said Secretary Yellen, in remarks delivered at Sinte Gleska University [a public, tribal, land-grant university in Mission, South Dakota, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, Brulé Lakota Indian Reservation home to the Sicangu.
Yellen] went on to acknowledge the “centuries-long injustices” that Native Nations are working to overcome, and committed to expanding the “unique relationship with Tribal nations, continuing our joint efforts to support the development of Tribal economies and economic opportunities for Tribal citizens….
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