WAYLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and White House Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden met with Gun Lake leaders to announce major investments in tribal communities.
“This is truly a game changer; it’s a once-in-a-lifetime investment for our people,” said Deb Haaland.
She says that $120 million in new funding has been made available through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to help tribal communities prepare for climate-related threats to their homelands.
The funding is part of nearly $560 million coming from the bipartisan infrastructure law called the Inflation Reduction Act.
The Gun Lake Tribe received $4 million to fund its electric infrastructure implementation project that will allow the tribe to buy electric vehicles and install solar panels.
Deb Haaland said, “We know that the need is incredibly high and that’s what decades of lack of depleted investment looks like, but what we are doing here will have lasting and enduring results.”
Tribes and tribal organizations that want to use this new funding will have to apply for grants and show how the money will be used.
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