A Minnesota tribe described as the richest in the U.S. has awarded Northern New Mexico’s Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo a $200,000 grant toward its ongoing project to revitalize homes in the pueblo’s historic 700-year-old core.
Leslie Colley, the pueblo housing authority’s development officer, said she approached the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community after Ohkay Owingeh sought a “more diverse and sustainable” source of funding for a project that has been underway for a dozen years.
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