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Congress weighs returning 12,000 acres to Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

Washington – The federal government would return 11,760 acres of land to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe as part of a measure moving through Congress.

The measure reverses a land seizure by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) that began in the late 1940s, when the agency authorized the sale of tribal land allotments to the U.S. Forest Service without the owners' consent. Sen. Tina Smith, a sponsor, has said that the bill would restore land "that was wrongfully taken from" the Ojibwe.

http://www.startribune.com/congress-weighs-returning-12-000-acres-to-leech-lake-band-of-ojibwe/503141662/

 

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