The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced last week that it was awarding nearly $70 million in Indian Community Development Block Grants to 49 tribal communities, including the Blackfeet, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck and Northern Cheyenne tribes in Montana.
The block grants, made possible through the American Rescue Plan, aim to help Indigenous communities prevent, prepare for and respond to the pandemic through funding housing construction, rehabilitation and water infrastructur...