The CRA victory funneled millions into restoring Cheyenne ranches and farms.

Evidence

In the 20 months that followed, over 3.8 million was loaned to residents of the Northern Cheyenne reservation. Almost 2 million was loaned to young people working to re-establish ranches and farms on the reservation. In early 1997, Gail Small was appointed to serve on the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council, the only Native person ever to have served on one of the federal bank’s committees. To others, another important benchmark occurred when an automated bank machine was installed in 1997 at Lame Deer. That meant to Gail that they were coming of age. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 481

Categorization

• XREF: Land recovery through capital access parallels White Earth’s forest restoration — both hinge on community-controlled money flow onto Native land.