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Tribes' $20B In Aid Could Be Transformative – If Feds Learn From Botched CARES Act Rollout

The Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa put much of its CARES Act aid toward a new tribal health clinic in Great Falls, Montana.
Little Shell Tribal Health
The Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa put much of its CARES Act aid toward a new tribal health clinic in Great Falls, Montana.

Many tribal leaders are used to stretching every dollar that comes their way. Last year, they were faced with a different problem: millions in badly...

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Savannah comes to Wyoming Public Media from NPR’s midday show Here & Now, where her work explored everything from Native peoples’ fraught relationship with American elections to the erosion of press freedoms for tribal media outlets. A proud citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, she’s excited to get to know the people of the Wind River reservation and dig into the stories that matter to them.