The Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota will be home to a newcredit union.

The NCUA's Office of Consumer Protection said it has approvedthe creation of Lakota Federal Credit Union, a low-incomedesignated community credit union that will serve the approximately40,000 people who live, work, worship, volunteer, attend school andtransact business on the reservation.

The new credit union is being sponsored by Lakota Funds, a26-year-old non-profit Community Development Financial Institutionin Kyle, S.D.,

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