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How 14 tribes plan to use the Biden administration’s solar grants
“Who knows our communities better than us, right?”
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Nation, which is leading the coalition, says the funding will bring jobs to their communities and make electricity more affordable. Two Bears is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and executive director of Indigenized Energy, which he founded in the wake of protests to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. “The more we keep it Native-led and the more we get our own membership and our own people and these reservations involved, the more successful we’re going to be moving forward to making sure that our next seven generations of our tribes are taken care of,” Cody Two Bears said on the call.
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