My name is Teri Allery. I am a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians (TMBCI), located in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota. I live on the TMBCI reservation (6 miles by 12 miles) in Belcourt, North Dakota, about 10 miles from the Canadian Border. We have about 31,000 enrolled members. A little over 16,000 of the enrolled members live on the reservation or adjacent to it.

I graduated in 2016 from North Dakota State University (NDSU) with a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering. I am now a graduate student at NDSU working on my Master’s in Construction Management and Engineering, and I will graduate in the spring of 2018.