HUD awards $2.7 million to tribes in Wisconsin including $1.7 million for Oneida Nation housing project

Two Indigenous nations in Wisconsin are receiving $2.7 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Officials for the federal agency announced this month that the Oneida Nation was awarded $1.7 million for the construction of eight two-bedroom homes on the reservation just west of Green Bay to help alleviate a shortage of housing.

The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians is receiving $1 million from HUD to build a new health care facility on the reservation on the shore of Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin.

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There are 11 federally recognized Indigenous nations in Wisconsin.

Nationally, HUD awarded more than $52 million to 49 tribal communities from its Indian Community Development Block Grant-American Rescue Plan program this month.

Last month, HUD awarded 68 tribal communities $74 million in funding.

The American Rescue Plan Act provides $750 million in resources to Indian Country.

The agency will announce additional awards on a rolling basis in the months to come.

Frank Vaisvilas is a Report For America corps member based at the Green Bay Press-Gazette covering Native American issues in Wisconsin. He can be reached at 920-228-0437 or fvaisvilas@gannett.com, or on Twitter at @vaisvilas_frank. Please consider supporting journalism that informs our democracy with a tax-deductible gift to this reporting effort at GreenBayPressGazette.com/RFA.

This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: New housing to be built on Oneida Reservation with federal funding