Text size The Minnesota-based Bush Foundation approved two community trust funds totaling US$100 million in 2021 to issue grants that tackle racial wealth gaps affecting Indigenous and Black communities in its region, including the Dakotas and 23 Native-American nations within those states. The foundation, which was established by Archibald Bush—an executive at the multinational company that became 3M—and his wife Edyth, created the community funds to address “the result of generations of unjust policies” that have harmed these communities. “There are direct through lines from broken treaties to unemployment rates, slavery to incarceration rates, redlining to homeownership rates,” the foundation...