FEMA trailers to help N.D reservations

North Dakota Indian reservations will be able to use Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers brought in to help Minot after last summer’s flooding, officials announced Wednesday.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Bureau of Indian Affairs granted request from Gov. Jack Dalrymple and North Dakota’s congressional delegation to make the trailers available to help fill a housing shortage.

The three-bedroom mobile homes will be made available to Native American tribes in the Great Plains region, including the Fort Berthold and Turtle Mountain reservations in North Dakota.

Dalrymple asked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar during his April 3 visit to New Town, N.D., to allow the North Dakota reservations to use the trailers after Minot families move out.

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