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it's good to hear when white people are being stopped from adopting our children. i hope they end up together, happy in a ndn home. -
Utah custody fight complicated by tribal law
by Mike Stark
Salt Lake City, Utah (AP)
Heather and Clint Larson hoped they’d be spending Christmas with a newly adopted 6-month-old boy.
Instead, after a monthslong court battle, the couple had to hand him over to representatives of the birth mother’s American Indian tribe, Minnesota’s Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, and watch him being driven away.
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Bemidji, Minnesota (AP)
Leech Lake and White Earth tribal leaders say they’re now planning diplomacy rather than a protest to assert fishing rights under treaties with the federal government.
Some Leech Lake legal officials had said members of the two Chippewa bands...05-03-2010, 04:32 PM -
Dear Editor,
In a peaceful occupation and protest, six Indian women led a coup to remove tribal President Victoria Doud, and seven other council members of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Indians, when they barricaded themselves in offices at the Tribal Center on March 26,...04-27-2008, 12:34 PM -
Duluth, Minnesota (AP)
The city of Duluth says it plans to go to court to force the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to keep sharing revenue from its downtown casino.
The band and the city reached the revenue-sharing deal in 1986, when Duluth allowed the downtown...08-31-2009, 02:14 PM -
Manistique, Michigan (AP)
Three members of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians have been convicted of running an illegal commercial fishing operation on Lake Michigan’s Little Bay de Noc.
Brothers Andrew, Kevin and John Schwartz of Rapid River were found guilty...08-30-2010, 02:01 PM -
Neopit, Wisconsin (AP)
A woman is accused of stealing a Menominee tribal police officer's SUV, then trying to run him over with it.
The 32-year-old woman, from the Menominee Indian Reservation, faces federal charges, including using a dangerous weapon.
...12-22-2010, 08:17 PM
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