Recently, a milestone was reached in oil production on the Fort Berthold Reservation.
Production reached the billion-barrel mark.
Three Affiliated Tribes chairman Mark Fox said much of the benefit has gone to landowners.
"That's been phenomenal, because many families can start affording good running cars, maybe a new home school clothes for their kids, and othr things that mainstream American families experience and enjoy, that we didn't have," Fox said.
Fox said that's about two-thirds of the oil revenue. He said the rest goes to the tribal government, and all tribal members benefit.
"Education, drug treatment, paving of roads, law enforcement, social services — these are the things we're talking about that we do with the one-third the tribes collected," Fox said. "We provide programming and infrastructure development."
Fox said if you haven’t been to Fort Berthold for a awhile, you should come and take a look.
"It's day and night," Fox said.
