PIERRE (AP) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has announced nearly $400,000 in grants for tribal community colleges in South Dakota.
The grants announced on Wednesday are available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Community Facilities program. In South Dakota, the Oglala Lakota College will get $145,302, Sinte Gleska University will receive $120,000 and the Sisseton Wahpeton College will pull in $125,549. The schools will use the grants on projects ranging from renovating instructional centers to buying student buses.
The announcement came out of the 2014 White House Tribal Nations Conference.
