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FEMA Sending Temporary Houses To Pine Ridge Reservation

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PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The federal government is sending temporary housing to South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where residents are still recovering from severe storms last spring.

Crews are delivering 50 Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers to the Oglala Sioux tribe to help tribal members affected by storms, straight-line winds and flooding in May.

The first two homes were shipped from Alabama and arrived at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City on Thursday. They’ll be sent from there to the reservation.

President Barack Obama in August declared the reservation a disaster, paving the way for federal aid that includes temporary housing, low-interest loans, grants for home repairs and disaster unemployment assistance.

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