The U.S. Treasury announced Tuesday it has begun distributing $4.8 billion in relief funding to Native American tribal governments across the country, $600 million of which is set to go to the Navajo Nation.
In a news release, the Treasury said it is distributing 60 percent of its $8 billion package to native tribes based on population data used in distributing the Indian Housing Block Grant. The data is based on U.S. Census figures.
The remaining 40 percent of the package is to be distributed a