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Grant to help tribes develop farm market stores

By The Associated Press

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – The Intertribal Bison Cooperative will receive a $175,000 federal grant to help Native American tribes develop farm market stores.

The stores will give local residents improved access to fresh, locally grown foods.

The U.S. Department of
Agriculture says the stores will also provide economic stability to cooperative members and create jobs in Native American communities.

The grant is part of $1.4 million in USDA funding to assist small, socially disadvantaged agricultural producers and cooperatives in rural areas.

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Monday, Mar 1 at 6:30 PM Heersa Bill wrote ...

Weres the rest of the story?

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Monday, Oct 26 at 1:13 PM Wanbli wrote ...

Less then crumbs, 175, OOO can even get one business, “store" started. This really isn't news, neither the good intension which is nothing but "false generosity" under a repressive and oppressive "unjust order "of this manipulative American empire. The US through out their history spent trillions building up Europe and Japan and other nation etc…as they were destroying us and our homelands and they throw us a bone without marrow.

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