The importance of Houston Teehee's signature

Everything old is new again as we remember a couple of forgotten Native firsts.

(courtesy Bureau of Engraving and Printing & Smithsonian Institution)

WASHINGTON — Just as it’s wrong to call Deb Haaland, a citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, the first Native American member of a U.S. president’s Cabinet — that distinction actually goes to Charles Curtis, who served as the nation’s 31st vice president under President Herbert Hoover — it’s a…