FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDNR Petitioned in District Court to Explain Damages to Public Water Wetland and Agricultural LandSt Paul, Ramsey County, October 10, 2014PERM (Proper Economic Resource Management), and eight other individuals and businesses who own or rent land directly below Curran Lake in Sibley County, filed a petition yesterday for a writ of mandamus [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 14, 2014CONTACTDouglas Meyenburg PERM 763-843-1039Bill Eno Save Mille Lacs Sport Fishing 320-279-1174The DNR has just lifted its ban on ALL night fishing on Mille Lacs. The ban was the most controversial part of their April 21 emergency Rule for fishing on Mille Lacs. Critics saw it as an unnecessary overreach [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE U.S. SUPREME COURT SAYS NO TO TRIBAL TAX Local organization plays important role in ruling. On May 29, 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 9-0 decision, that a tax imposed by the Navaho Indian Tribe on a hotel operating within the borders of the tribe's reservation was invalid. [...]
PRESS RELEASEJanuary 31, 2001Local Organization Files Briefs With Supreme Court in Case With National Ramifications.Proper Economic Resource Management (PERM) is a Minnesota based non-profit conservation club dedicated to balanced solutions to natural resource management issues. As Native American Indian tribes across the country seek to assert and expand the scope of their governmental powers, [...]
Study: Minnesota’s Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa does not live in poverty. On average, their income is on par with Mille Lacs County as a whole(BOSTON -July 23 2012) An extensive income analysis by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University finds that Chippewa Band families and households, on average, are not living in [...]
Study: Mille Lacs economy suffers as treaty regulations limit fishing and hunting rights for residents(BOSTON -August 2, 2012) Since a 1999 Supreme Court ruling upholding the fishing harvest rights of the Mille Lacs Chippewa Band of Chippewa’s, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has increased the band’s allocation of fish on Lake Mille Lacs [...]
AMICUS BRIEF 7th Draft INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE The Amicus Curiae, Proper Economic Resource Management, Inc. ("PERM") is a Minnesota non-profit corporation with approximately 1,000 members. PERM is involved in protecting and advancing the private property interests and rights of all citizens, including both members and non-members of Indian tribes. PERM is interested [...]