Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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On the MILLE LACS INDIAN RESERVATION — Today is the deadline for American Indians and their descendants to take part in a $3.4 billion settlement with the federal government over the mismanagement of Indian land and money. In Minnesota, the settlement will distribute $57 million to more than 35,000 tribal members. Earlier this month, Arlene Weous, who lives on the Mille Lacs reservation in central Minnesota, called the Bureau of Indian Affairs to file her claim. She will be among thousands of A...
On the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation — Today is the deadline for American Indians and their descendants to take part in a $3.4 billion settlement with the federal government over the mismanagement of Indian land and money. In Minnesota, the settlement will distribute $57 million to more than 35,000 tribal members. Earlier this month, Arlene Weous, who lives on the Mille Lacs reservation in central Minnesota, called the Bureau of Indian Affairs to file her claim. She will be among thousands of American Indian around the country taking part in t...
St. Paul, Minn. — A report out Tuesday says the academic progress of American Indians is, for the most part, not improving. The National Indian Education Study found roughly one-half to two-thirds of fourth- and eighth-grade students score at, or better than basic reading and math levels. The findings for Minnesota follow the national trend. "Statistically the achievement for this subpopulation of students is flat," said Jack Buckley, the commissioner for the Center for National Education Statistics. "They're not making any progress." The f...
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Some Minnesota Native American tribes will benefit from a $1 billion settlement with the federal government. The agreement was announced Wednesday and addresses mismanagement by the federal government of Native American trust accounts. It also signals a new direction in the way federal agencies work in Indian country. Minnesota's Chippewa Tribe will receive just under $2 million of the settlement. Gary Frazer, the tribe's executive director, said "The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe got very little of that. In fact tribes in the M...
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — On Thursday, a House committee in Washington discussed a bill that would resolve a more than 120-year-old land dispute between Minnesota's Chippewa Tribe and the federal government. The tribe is made up of six bands, one of which told members of the House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs the bills in Congress are unfair. The settlement is over land the federal government sold below value decades ago — a move impacting some bands' reservations more than others. At the hearing, Arthur LaRose, chairman of the...
