Deb Haaland actually said...

"Companies will simply be discouraged from developing the minerals on my behalf because it just doesn't make sense economically or technologically."

"Our voices should and must be heard equally along with the environmental special interest groups."

"It is a carefully thought-out community that our ancestors planned and executed over centuries."

"I too care deeply about the Chaco cultural heritage. After all, I'm a Navajo who lives right in the Greater Chaco Region."