The Gun Lake Tribe has announced details of two separate grants awarded by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs' Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR). The total amount of funding awarded from the grants amounts to over $4 million.
The grant funding comes from programs created between tribes and the federal government designed to mitigate climate change. The Tribe will use these funds to purchase electric fleet vehicles and new E-V chargers, to install a solar array to provide renewable energy, and to plan for reusage of graywater at the Tribe’s various facilities.
This all goes in accordance with the Tribe's mission to "maintain our elders’ vision, integrity, spirituality, culture, and economic self-sufficiency by protecting our sovereignty, treaty rights, traditions, land and natural resources for our future generations,”.