When Vice President Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in August, it set up the possibility of a new chapter for Indian Country in the history books.

If Harris and Walz win the November presidential election and are inaugurated in January, the role of governor will fall to Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan — making way for what could be the country’s first Native American woman governor.

Read more: Could we have the first Native American woman governor?

Flanagan, a citizen of the White Earth Nation, was first elected with Walz in 2018, becoming the first Native woman in the Lower 48 to serve as a state’s lieutenant governor. Valerie Davidson, Yup’ik, briefly served as Alaska’s lieutenant governor in 2018.

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