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U.S. District Court Affirms Mille Lacs Indian Reservation

MILLE LACS INDIAN RESERVATION - On Friday, U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson wrote a 93-page opinion on Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe v. County of Mille Lacs affirming that the boundaries of reservation were never dissolved, confirming the Tribe's sovereignty on its lands. The Tribe filed a federal lawsuit in 2017 arguing that the (Mille Lacs) county prevented the Mille Lacs Tribal Police from policing within the reservation boundaries.

"This ruling affirms what Shaboshkung began fighting for in the 1860's, what every leader since has carried on, and what we have always known-that our reservation was never diminished, that we are non-removable, and this reservation will be our home into perpetuity," said Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin in a press release on Saturday, March 5.

The County maintained in the lawsuit that the 1855 Treaty Reservation was terminated by. Congress by subsequent treaties, statues, and agreements with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and, also, that the county law enforcement did not interfere with tribal law enforcement's ability to police. The Tribe argued that the county undermined tribal policing, contributing to an influx of criminal activity.

https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/u-s-district-court-affirms-mille-lacs-indian-reservation

 

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