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On Point | Podcast

How Trump administration cuts threaten Native Americans

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As the Trump Administration looks to cut government spending, many Indigenous communities say they’re losing vital public services.

It could be a violation of long-standing treaties between tribes and the federal government.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:14.0

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0:18.0

To learn more, visit about amazon.com at UK forward slash sustainability.

0:29.7

Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken, a podcast from B.U's Mayrotra Institute

0:36.2

that explores questions like,

0:38.0

Why are executives paid so much?

0:40.9

Do they deserve it?

0:42.2

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

0:45.7

WBUR Podcasts, Boston.

0:52.6

This is On Point.

0:56.7

I'm Deborah Becker in for Magna Chakra-Bardi.

1:03.3

The Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in northern Montana is rural, really rural.

1:09.3

Tessa Hawley lives there. She says things that many Americans take for granted are often hard to come by. We only have a local grocery store, and some of our families live anywhere from 40 to 50 miles from it, and it's a very small grocery store.

1:20.9

We have some conveniences, but it just simply cannot source the food and the resources,

1:28.4

especially the fresh produce, is almost little to none scarce.

1:35.2

Health care is also scarce.

1:37.5

Many treatments require a three-hour drive one way to Billings,

1:42.4

the nearest major city.

1:43.8

In 2016, Holly started the Day Eagle Hope

1:47.8

Project. That's a nonprofit that provides medical and behavioral health care on the reservation.

1:53.4

And recently, she's been running a kind of food bank. She brings in truckloads of meat and produce

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