The Rolling Rez: Giving “Mobile Banking” a New Meaning
Oweesta Corporation
Loan Fund, Native CDFI, Tribes and Indigenous People
South Dakota
Every two weeks, on Tribal Pay Days, when the Tribe (the largest employer on the Pine Ridge Reservation) disperses paychecks, a brightly painted bus pulls up. The Rolling Rez is a bank on wheels that travels the fifty miles from Kyle to Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and services Tribal employees with their banking needs. People have access to cash, deposit their paychecks, sign loan documents, open accounts - virtually everything a local branch does.
