Located east of Glacier National Park in Montana, the reservation is home to about 14,600 members of the Blackfeet Tribe. For far too long, the first Americans have been locked out of the American Dream of a home, a job and a chance to build a better tomorrow for their children. For far too long, reservations have been islands of poverty in a sea of American prosperity. We will not allow this to continue. Severe housing shortages and substandard housing are common on the Blackfeet Reservation, and homeownership is rare.
Many homes lack kitchens and indoor plumbing.
The park will be next to the Tribe's Head Start building and will target Head Start children and their families. Reservation residents will be hired and trained by Pikuni to perform welding, carpentry, plumbing, engineering and other work. Pikuni will manufacture steel frame assembly line homes to create affordable housing for reservation residents. The Blackfeet Reservation is the second reservation that Cuomo has visited this summer. The tour focused attention on urban and rural areas where unemployment is too high and jobs are too scarce.