A member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, Haaland would also oversee the U.S. government's relationship with some 574 federally recognized tribal nations. New Mexico Democratic Senator Ben Ray Lujan ...
A deal quickly followed. Velasquez's Laguna Development Corp., Laguna Pueblo's business development arm, bought the racetrack in 2019 for $11 million. It sold to CDI just a few years later ...