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  • Attorney challenges legality of new White Earth constitution

    Paul Quam, Forum News Service|Dec 23, 2013

    WHITE EARTH, Minn. -- The White Earth Nation may have a new constitution, but one of its own attorneys is trying to put the brakes on implementation. Frank Bibeau, a tribal attorney and enrolled member of White Earth, has begun the process of filing an appeal to overturn the results of the Nov. 19 referendum that led to the White Earth Indian Reservation adopting its own constitution. When White Earth did that, it essentially stepped away from the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and the blanket...