BP: As shutdown lingers, Leech Lake, Red Lake face difficult decisions

Jan 25, 20190

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"We're very concerned and alarmed about the possibility of, the longer it goes, what more serious impacts it's going to have on our government here, and our day-to-day business operations,' said Faron Jackson, Sr., the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe's tribal chairman. (Joe Bowen | Bemidji Pioneer)

LEECH LAKE-In December, as a federal shutdown loomed, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe leaders asked the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service to send as much money as they could muster.

Now, as the shutdown lingers and the $2 million Leech Lake received starts to dwindle, the band is beginning to tighten its belt-and it's not alone.

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