Shoshone Bannock Tribes

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, a federally recognized Native American tribal government headquartered in Pocatello, Idaho, operates primarily as a federal grant recipient delivering community services, tribal governance programs, and infrastructure projects across 73 federal agencies. The Tribes are structured as a tribal government entity and compete in full-and-open federal grant processes reserved for federally recognized Indian tribes, with 99% of recent awards as prime recipients rather than subcontractors.

The Tribes' federal footprint spans health, human services, transportation, environmental management, and criminal justice. Recent representative grants include a $4.4 million Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) from the Office of Child Care awarded October 1, 2025, to provide child care subsidies and quality improvements through September 2028; a $901,471 Treatment Court Discretionary Grant (CFDA 16.585) from the Bureau of Justice Assistance for expansion of the Healing to Wellness Court through September 2030; a $3.8 million Highway Planning and Construction grant (CFDA 20.205) from the Federal Highway Administration for transportation infrastructure on the Fort Hall Reservation; a $1.088 million Cooperative Agreement from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) for fish passage restoration in the Yankee Fork Watershed; and a $350,000 Center for Mental Health Services project grant (CFDA 93.532) from SAMHSA to develop a culturally anchored system of care for Native American children and families through September 2029. Three federal contracts support the Tribes' Tribal Employment Rights Office (TERO) program, each a $32,000 firm fixed-price definitive contract from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (October 2024, 2023, and 2022).

Customer concentration is diffuse across 73 agencies, but the Department of Health and Human Services dominates by volume: the Administration for Children and Families holds 89 awards and the Indian Health Service holds 79 awards ($1.9 million combined potential value). The Environmental Protection Agency places 46 awards; the Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration, 34 awards. The Tribes place recurring work under two Blanket Purchase Agreements with HHS (44 and 30 task orders respectively), though the source lists no major IDIQs or GWACs. Activity has declined year over year—45 awards in 2022 to eight in 2026—with 28 awards reaching completion within the next twenty-four months. The Tribes serve as grant recipients at Fort Hall, Idaho, with performance occurring on the Fort Hall Reservation in southeastern Idaho (Bannock, Bingham, Caribou, and Power counties). Subcontract activity is minimal (1% of awards), with recent sub-grants to the University of Idaho for teacher professional development, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare for warm handoff services and substance use prevention, and the Idaho State Board of Education for school nutrition programs.

The Tribes' grant portfolio emphasizes behavioral health and addiction treatment (including opioid response and medication-assisted treatment programming), child welfare and family support services, transportation infrastructure and public transit operations, water quality and air quality environmental monitoring and tribal response programs, elder services and nutrition support, and cultural preservation including library services and language revitalization. The source material reflects approximately 6,161 enrolled tribal members on the Fort Hall Reservation and indicates the Tribes' capacity to manage a complex grant portfolio spanning health systems integration, emergency preparedness coordination, brownfields remediation, fisheries management, and self-governance planning for Indian Health Service Program assumption.