OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Native Americans watched the shuttered government on Friday and braced for damage to their health care, education and infrastructure.

Those services are funded by Washington under treaties struck more than a century ago.

Tribal nations with casinos, oil and gas leases said they expect to be immune for several months. But tribes dependent on government money were already furloughing workers. And many tribal leaders said they feared the Trump administration would use the shutdown to permanently shutter Indian services.

President Donald Trump and his former adviser Elon Musk this year called on the General Services Administration to start terminating leases held by the nation’s 7,500-odd federal offices, including 25 regional offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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