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Washington-A program to turn military housing destined for the trash heap into homes for Native Americans has earned an award of excellence from the Fannie Mae Foundation.
The five-year plan to save nearly 700 excess military homes from the wrecking ball and rent them to 3,000 families on 13 reservations in the Dakotas and Montana earned the Walking Shield American Indian Society a $35,000 grant from the Foundation.
It was one of six such grants made to non-profit organizations here last week at part the llth Annual Maxwell Awards Of Excellence program, which seeks to recognize and encourage efforts to develop and maintain housing for lowincome Americans.
In total, the Foundation funded 55 grants worth $385,000 for this year's awards program.
The Walking Shield Society plans to move 463 houses from the...