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A thousand miles west of their home turf, the Washington Redskins will face a double dose of hostility in Minnesota Sunday. Washington will play the Minnesota Vikings to the roar of a crowd inside TCF Bank Stadium, even as a chorus of speakers outside denounce their team name as a racial slur. Organizers expect thousands of protesters to turn out in what they hope will be the biggest demonstration ever against the Redskins name. It will be the fourth large local protest against the use of Indian...
Two members of the Native Mob crime gang — one of them its “undisputed leader” — were sentenced to lengthy prison terms Tuesday, as federal authorities wrapped up their crackdown on the American Indian gang that prosecutors said had terrorized reservations and urban communities in Minnesota and other states. “It’s a lot safer in Indian Country than it was two years ago, now that all the arrests and convictions have been made,” said Gary Frazer, executive director of the Minnesota Chippewa tribe at Cass Lake, on Tuesday. “There seems to be les...
In a highly unusual decision Monday, U.S. District Judge John Tunheim overturned the March jury conviction of a 40-year-old man from the Red Lake Indian Reservation who was found guilty of seriously injuring his 10-month-old son. Tunheim, in a 40-page decision, said the prosecution had failed to prove its case and ordered James White Jr. immediately released from the Sherburne County jail. White has been jailed since last September and faced a mandatory sentence of at least 10 years in prison. A...
Indictments have fizzled in the cases of 10 accused in a huge operation on state Indian reservations. Like the big fish that got away, a federal crackdown last year on fish poaching on some of northern Minnesota's most popular lakes has left authorities empty-handed. Of the 10 federal indictments announced with much fanfare in April 2013, none has gone forward, to the delight of defense attorneys and to the dismay of sportsmen concerned that unchecked po...
A federal judge in Minneapolis on Monday threw out the indictments of five American Indians arrested in a major fish poaching case on Indian reservations in northern Minnesota, saying the men were protected under an 1837 treaty. The decision by Judge John Tunheim of Minneapolis appears to be directly opposite to rulings by U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle of St. Paul on Oct. 31, creating a legal tangle that will likely keep attorneys and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals busy well into 2014. The...
After more than 28 years in the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis, Jeanne Cooney, its director of community relations, is calling it quits. “She is a real visionary,” said former U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones, who left the office in August to become permanent director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “She is very creative, very caring, she makes people feel good.” Former U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug, now a Minnesota Supreme Court justice, said he’s proud he pr...
