Secretary Noem better do something to bring more federal dollars to Indian Country and South Dakota. Her boss just killed the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, which was driving economic development on the Cheyenne River Reservation:
Roughly 25 years ago, only 1% of all small businesses on the Cheyenne River Reservation in northwestern South Dakota were Native owned despite Native people making up more than 90% of the reservation population. That all changed when Four Bands Community Fund, a Native Community Development Financial Institution, came to town.
As of October 2025, more than 15% of small businesses on Cheyenne River are Native owned, funded by micro-loans, which are loans under $50,000, to Native entrepreneurs delivered by Four Bands.
“We’ve done every loan product except vehicle loans,” said Lakota Vogel, executive director of Four Bands and Cheyenne River Lakota. “Mortgages, home renovations – we are serving all of that.”
In 2024 alone, the nonprofit lender distributed 493 loans totaling $31,876,043 to entrepreneurs across South Dakota, according to its 2024 financial report.
…But that newfound economic stability and empowerment is threatened by a reduction-in-force notice issued on Oct. 10 from the Office of Management and Budget, stating the CDFI fund no longer aligned with President Donald Trump’s priorities.
In the letter, the entire CDFI fund staff was issued notice that their jobs would be terminated and the fund would be abolished in the midst of an ongoing government shutdown [Amelia Schafer, ICT, “Trump Administration Guts Community Finance Fund, a Move That Threatens Tribal Economies,” South Dakota Searchlight, 2025.11.03].
Promoting entrepreneurship, jobs, and financial independence do not align with Donald Trump’s priorities—got it.
In 1993, racist henchman, Roger Stone constructed ad copy and radio scripts depicting the Mohawk Nation as violent criminals and drug dealers so Donald Trump could erect a casino. So, make no mistake. Donald Trump is targeting Indian Country for annihilation. And, because he lost his lawsuit against the Mohawks Trump declared war on Native America and in 2020 he launched a biological weapon on tribal communities. Trump Organization committed crimes against humanity throughout Indian Country not only by slow-walking resources to reservations during a pandemic but by undercounting Indigenous populations during the 2020 Census. Donald Trump even killed the White House Tribal Nations Summit because he loathes Native Americans.
Trump is colorblind. All racism is in the past. Charlie Kirk, apart from being dead, is the future. Whitewashing rules the day. No money for the tribes, let them look for rare earth’s on their own. When they find it, we’ll step in.
Trump is color blind like Pat Powers is a dietician.
Dietitian, rather. Trump loathes Native Americans.