The data behind Indian Country.
Original collections built from publicly available sources, connected through original research, and maintained as Indian Country changes. Every record traces back to the document it came from.
Built by Lumecon in partnership with Tribal Business News.
Federal Funding to Indian Country
2007 to presentData as of Oct. 1 · weekly review schedule
Federal assistance transactions reported for Native nations, organizations, enterprises and other identified recipients, including grants, loans and direct payments. Follow funding by recipient, program, agency, amount and year.
Example records5 of 640,942 observations
| Native entity | Entity role | Recipient as recorded | Amount obligated | Action date | Program | Agency | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Band of Cherokee IndiansCE-0014B-TW | recipient | EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS | $302,305 | 2012-09-17 | COMMUNITY FOREST AND OPEN SPACE CONSERVATION PROGRAM (CFP) | Department of Agriculture | U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.govfiscal year: 2012; fy partial flag: 0Open cited source |
| Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, UtahCE-001BW-3N | recipient | UTE INDIAN TRIBE | $160,000 | 2010-06-07 | RECOVERY ACT OF 2009: WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT | Department of Agriculture | U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.govfiscal year: 2010; fy partial flag: 0Open cited source |
| Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation, NevadaCE-00174-ZX | recipient | MOAPA BAND PAIUTE | $50,265 | 2010-04-28 | RECOVERY ACT OF 2009: WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT | Department of Agriculture | U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.govfiscal year: 2010; fy partial flag: 0Open cited source |
| Nez Perce TribeCE-0017H-D2 | recipient | NEZ PERCE TRIBE | $10,000 | 2017-06-17 | PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS | Department of Agriculture | U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.govfiscal year: 2017; fy partial flag: 0Open cited source |
| Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New MexicoCE-0017A-3K | recipient | MESCALERO APACHE TRIBE | $39,538 | 2018-07-03 | PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS | Department of Agriculture | U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.govfiscal year: 2018; fy partial flag: 0Open cited source |
- 14 collections
- 1,778,800 observations
- as far back as 1909
- data as of Oct. 1, 2026
- page updated Oct. 6, 2026
Observations are rows across collections of different kinds, such as filings, awards, parcels and documents. They are not unique entities or an additive dollar total.
Tribal NationsEconomic development
Learn from how peer nations are building their economies.
Follow enterprise growth, contracts, major transactions, resource activity and funding across Indian Country to identify strategies worth examining in your own planning.
Federal Funding to Indian Country. Federal assistance transactions reported for Native nations, organizations, enterprises and other identified recipients, including grants, loans and direct payments. Follow funding by recipient, program, agency, amount and year.
What Cedar does with them
The hard part is knowing who a record is about.
A federal contract names the company that won it, a Form 990 names the nonprofit that filed it, and a royalty statement names whoever was paid. None of them says whether those names belong to one nation or three. Those relationships are not consistently recorded across public systems.
Lumecon’s researchers turn material that is public but scattered, difficult to find, or structured for compliance rather than analysis into original datasets, drawing on the source systems listed on this page. We standardize dates and measures, reconcile duplicate events and changing names, and check proposed Native entity links against source evidence with human review. That work creates searchable data no single publisher provides, while preserving the evidence and known limits behind each published record.
Tribal Business News reports on topics no one else covers and has become a trusted partner across Indian Country, including with government agencies. Organizations that want to reach people engaged in the multibillion-dollar Indian Country economy turn to it, and its reporting gives each figure context about the nations and enterprises behind it.
- Cedar PressSee what's happening. 7 collections.
- Cedar Press+Understand the systems behind it. 7 collections.
Put the data to work
Explore original datasets on funding, business, policy and land. Download collections for your own research, reporting and planning, with the definitions and source references needed to use them.
Follow connections across collections
Connect a nation’s enterprises with their contracts, funding and transactions. Read those relationships alongside broader policy and economic records to understand individual organizations and the developments shaping Indian Country.
Research grounded in the collections
Read original research briefs, starting with the first nation-shared roster of individually owned Native businesses. Follow the findings back to their evidence and use the underlying collections to investigate your own questions.
Explore with Cedar
Ask Cedar what a collection covers, how it is built and what has changed. Find relevant data and understand how the collections can help you approach your question.
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Tribal government data requests - Research
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Research access - Methods
How a collection is built, and how it is kept current.
Cedar Press maintains its datasets on a weekly schedule with human review, expands their source coverage and useful fields over time and develops new collections. Methods shows how records are sourced and resolved to Native entities: the reference to open before citing a number.
How Cedar builds its collections