On July 17, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the Chilkoot Indian Association (CIA) had received $900,000 through a CARES Act-funded Indian Community Development Block Grant to cover the cost of housing improvements related to COVID-19. The block grant brings CIA’s CARES Act funding total to more than $2 million from three distinct sources—HUD, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
The HUD funding was awarded on…