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The money will ensure that tribes—including Montanas Blackfeet Nation, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, and Crow Nation—get access to water theyve been promised but have been unable to use.

The Biden administration will use $1.7 billion from the recently enacted federal infrastructure bill to fund 16 tribal water rights settlements, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday.

PHOENIX (AP) — The Biden administration will use $1.7 billion from the recently enacted...

The Biden administration will use $1.7 billion from the recently enacted federal infrastructure bill to fund 16 tribal water rights settlements.

The Biden administration will use $1.7 billion from the recently enacted federal infrastructure bill to fund 16 tribal water rights settlements, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Tuesday announced that her agency will fulfill tribal water rights settlements using funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law.

PHOENIX (AP) — The Biden administration will use $1.7 billion from the recently enacted federal infrastructure bill to fund 16 tribal water rights settlements, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday.

Secretary Deb Haaland said the Biden administrations infrastructure act would pay for new water projects and fulfill government obligations.

During her visit to Arizona, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the agency’s plan to fulfill settlements of Indian water rights claims using money from the infrastructure spending plan that President Joe Biden signed into law last year.

Heading into year three of the pandemic, deaths among Native people has crossed the 10,000 death mark. At least one expert doesnt believe it will get much better unless vaccinations are embraced