Mary Peltola was sworn in Tuesday to the U.S. House, becoming the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress and the first woman to hold Alaska’s lone seat in the House of Representatives.
Peltola, a former state lawmaker who represented the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in the state House for a decade ending in 2009, previously chaired the state Bush Caucus that brings together lawmakers representing communities off the road system. More recently she was the director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission working on subsistence fishery issues and food security in the region.
Also in attendance at the swearing in were the two co-chairs of the Alaska Federation of Natives, who planned a reception for Peltola following the swearing-in ceremony at a hotel near the Capitol. Nikki Pitre, who runs the Center for Native American Youth in Washington, D.C., brought her five-year-old daughter Adela to the swearing-in.
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