How The Rosebud Tribe is Advancing Indigenous Business and Housing on the Reservation with $1 Million Grant from The EDA
Siċangu Co
Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded a $1 million grant to the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation, Mission, South Dakota, to support planning, design, and engineering for the Sicangu Co Innovation Center. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan’s Indigenous Communities program.
The multi-purpose innovation center will support business growth, access to quality housing, increase educational opportunities, and support workforce development for the Sicangu Lakota Oyate (Rosebud Sioux Tribe).
“The Sicangu Innovation Center (SIC) will be a flexible, multipurpose facility designed to support and enhance the socioeconomic landscape of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate (Rosebud Sioux Tribe).
The SIC will sit at the heart of the 590-acre Keya Wakpala Woicageyapi (Turtle Creek Regenerative Development (KWW)), located just west of the town of Mission, South Dakota, the commercial hub of the Rosebud Reservation.
Encompassing a building or linked buildings of 45,000 to 50,000 total square feet, as well as extensive outdoor market and gathering space(s), the proposed SIC is envisioned to accommodate a wide range of programs and uses furthering economic development, entrepreneurship, and community-based initiatives and services”
From the Sicangu Co Website
This project is funded under EDA’s American Rescue Plan Indigenous Communities program, which allocates $100 million in American Rescue Plan funding specifically to support the needs of Tribal Governments and Indigenous communities. The program supports these partners to develop and execute economic development projects they need to recover from the pandemic and build economies for the future. Indigenous communities are also eligible and encouraged to apply under all of EDA’s other programs.
Siċaŋġu Co
Sicangu CDC is a community-based 501(c)3 nonprofit that reimagines the systems of food, health, education, and housing.
Sicangu Co have already implemented successful programs such as language revitalization, food sovereignty, buffalo restoration, and community asset building.
“We are guided and inspired by the 7Gen Vision, which imagines the type of world we’d like to see our descendants living in 175 years from now. We ask, How do we live today to create a healthy, just, abundant world for our grandchildren?”