[November 20, 2020]

Total number of days before Biden is scheduled to be inaugurated, Jan. 20: 60

Number of Native Americans being considered for Joe Biden’s Cabinet: 1

Total number of Native Americans to have served as a Cabinet Secretary: 0

Number of letters sent to Biden endorsing Deb Haaland for Interior Secretary: 3

Total years the DOI has been established: 171

Estimated acreage of Indigenous land lost to allotment laws enforced by the DOI: 90M

Estimated acreage of tribal trust land managed by DOIs Bureau of Indian Affairs: 55M

Total acreage of heirship trust land deeply fractionated across Indian Country: 6.2M

Amount DOI settled with tribes over mismanagement of their mineral royalties: $3.4B 

Total months since HB 7608 advanced, preventing DOIs seizure of Wampanoag land: 4

Total Wampanoags who reportedly feasted with Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony, 1621: 90

Estimated number of Americans expected to travel by car over Thanksgiving: 47.8M

Number of Blackfeet COVID-19 victims memorialized in a virtual ceremony: 27 

Estimated cost to remove 4 dams with PacifiCorp Klamath Hydroelectric Project: $450M

Approximate mileage of salmon habitat to be restored from the dam removal: 400