MLFAC seeking new members
Mille Lacs Fisheries Advisory Committee (MLFAC) is seeking new members to fill several open seats. PERM regularly attends these meetings and encourages anyone concerned about the co-management of Mille Lacs to apply. The deadline is February 22. Details were reported in the Mille Lacs Messenger on February 3rd. See the link and more info in their article below. Mille Lacs [...]
Misleading Highway Signs Provoke Mille Lacs County Residents
The Mille Lacs Band called on the MN Department of Transportation to erect highway signs on the "reservation boundaries." These are based on tribal claims that the long-since disestablished reservation still exists. The secretly-negotiated signage campaign went up without the knowledge of any Mille Lacs County Commissioners. It's just another tactic to support tribal boundary claims. This time while a [...]
Reservation Boundary Signs Tell Half the Story
Tracy LeBrun writing in the Mille Lacs Messenger, Reservation Boundary Signs Go Up, January 11, 2021, provides details about the Mille Lacs Band’s MnDOT "reservation boundary" campaign. Mille Lac tribal claims for the existence of the long-since-disestablished Mille Lacs reservation are being amped up with MnDOT highway signage. The signs include the words “Established in 1855 Treaty” and are placed [...]
Time for a new approach to DNR ‘co-management’
Steve Johnson makes some good points in his recent opinion article in the Mille Lacs Messenger, "When will we be able to keep a walleye?" Mille Lacs Messenger, Nov 27, 2020. He says, "On the Native American side, subsistence and culture are the claimed reasons for the harvest." But Steve believes neither reason forces DNR to co-manage by simply reacting [...]
PERM’s annual Blainbrook event is cancelled
I am saddened to report that because of new COVID restrictions we have been forced to cancel our scheduled Dec 3, 2020 "Save Minnesota" Blainbrook fundraising event. This has always been a time to renew friendships, have some fun, and raise much-needed funds to keep moving forward with our goal for equal hunting and fishing rights for all Minnesotans and [...]
Congratulations PERM 2020 Legal Fund Raffle Winners!
Here are the WINNERS of PERM’s Fall Legal Fund Raffle. I'm always happy to share some good news. It also gives me a chance to talk to some our raffle winners. There's no question PERM has a very supportive membership. Thanks to everyone who got in on the raffle. We count on your support, and you came through. It's the [...]