'It has taken 233 years for the U.S. Congress to be fully represented by this country’s indigenous peoples,' Rep. Kaiali'i Kahele, the second Native Hawaiian to represent his home state.
She attended the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Alaska. She also established the lobbying firm Sattler Strategies.
She served as the executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and a councilwoman in Bethel, a small city in Alaska, from 2011-2013.The representation, she told the outlet, can have a big impact on the political power of Indigenous communities across the U.S. "People need representation and young people need to see people that look like themselves, that come from their communities," Teves said.
that having members who come from Indigenous communities can mean issues important to those communities, including climate change and violence against Native women may get more attention in Congress.Natalie Neysa Alund covers trending news for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter
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