The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of South Dakota will use $200,000 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The money came from the Environmental Protection Agency. The tribe will use it to clean up a former orphanage and boarding school.

"It is not a healthy area," Steve Jackson Sr. of the tribe's Office of Environmental Protection told The Sioux Falls Argus Leader. "We want to help get rid of a hazard to our people and our environment."

The tribe plans to redevelop the 12-acre Tekakwitha Old Orphanage and Boarding School Complex after the cleanup.

Get the Story:
EPA grant to cleanse S. Dakota sites (The Sioux Falls Argus Leader 5/21)

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
H.R.1 | S.1

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