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Tribe blocks roads crossing reservation, landowners isolated

By |February 20th, 2023|Categories: Updates|

A recent New York Times article reported on a tribal blockade of roads in Wisconsin, Amid land dispute deadlock, tribe blocks streets. (They are not “streets.”) It gives non-tribal MN residents in the newly expanded ML reservation a real-time example of what private property landowners face if they are located within a reservation. The currently deadlocked dispute involves four backroads [...]

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Mille Lacs Band granted police powers over reclaimed reservation

By |January 13th, 2023|Categories: Updates|

A court ruling announced January 12th, in a press release from Mille Lacs County Administrator Dillon Hayes, restores the Mille Lacs Band's ownership of the long dis-established 1855 Mille Lacs Reservation. This includes civil and criminal authority over all persons in that territory. As PERM has often pointed out, such jurisdiction covers all natural resources. That puts anything related to [...]

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Rez boundary suit affordable. Appeals next!

By |December 27th, 2022|Categories: Updates|

Steve Johnson, Letter of the Week, Mille Lacs Messenger, finds cost of the Mille Lacs Reservation Boundary lawsuit to be relatively modest. He hopes ML County Commissioners will move forward through an APPEALS process. PERM's concern is that an expanded reservation puts a lot more natural resources--including hunting and fishing--under tribal management control. Read more below Mille Lacs Messenger Letter [...]

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DNR biologist: Mille Lacs has fisheries management problem

By |December 7th, 2022|Categories: Updates|

Joe Fellegy recently interviewed  Paul Radomski, A Q&A with Radomski author of new walleye book," MN Outdoor News, December 2, 2022. The interview of DNR biologist Paul Radomski about  his latest book “Walleye: A Beautiful Fish of the Dark,” confirms what PERM has been pointing out all along: the Mille Lacs fishery has a management problem. Radomski certainly has the [...]

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DNR sidelines MLFAC members at Nov. meeting

By |November 11th, 2022|Categories: Updates|

DNR couldn't answer questions; wouldn't discuss upcoming regs. I participated in the MLFAC meeting online and was surprised by the DNR’s lack of expertise about their own operations. As Committee members were asking questions, the majority of the answers were "I don't know," "we are looking into that," "we will look into that," "we are working on that," … These [...]

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No real basis for why tribal and state hunting seasons differ

By |October 19th, 2022|Categories: Updates|

In an interview of tribal representatives, Javier Serna, Assistant Editor, Outdoor News Minnesota explores reasons for why tribal and state hunting seasons differ. Many tribal and state hunting seasons differ: Why? Tribal representatives tried to make the case that a "subsistence hunting and gathering culture" at the time treaties were signed still exists today. However, the Courts have ruled that [...]

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