Assistance program
Indian Rights Protection
$466.0 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 15.036
- What it does
- To protect Indian rights guaranteed through treaty or statute by obtaining the services or information needed to litigate challenges to these rights.
- Who benefits
- Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments and their members.
- Who applies
- Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments and Native American Organizations authorized by Indian tribal governments.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 97-394, 96 Stat. 1976, 28 U.S.C. 2415; Indian Claims Limitation Act of 1982; Public Law 98-250; Public Law 96-487, 94 Stat. 2371, 16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.; Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act; Public Law 92-203, 106 Stat 2112-2125, 43 U.S.C. 1601; Alaska Nati…
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$465.6M
100%
Grants
$353.4K
<1%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments