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Salazar Announces $500 Million for Tribes

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. left, and Sen. Kent Conrad during a news conference at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, N.D. Salazar announced $19.6 million federal stimulus funds directed to North Dakota tribes.AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Mike McCleary

Salazar Announces $500 Million for Tribes

April 26, 2009

By James MacPherson of the Associated Press

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says $500 million in federal stimulus money will go to American Indian tribes across the U.S. for schools, housing, infrastructure improvements and job programs on reservations.

Salazar made the announcement Saturday at the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, N.D.

The Interior Department oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Salazar said reservations face serious challenges and President Barack Obama wants to help American Indians "have a new beginning."

Salazar was in North Dakota to visit several places, including an energy center on the Fort Berthold reservation and the Great Plains Synfuels plant.

He also planned to visit North Dakota communities hit by flooding this spring.

James MacPherson is an Associated Press staff writer.

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