Congratulations PERM 2023 Summer Legal Fund Raffle Winners! I always enjoy talking with the winners I called about their good news. Only wish PERM could have a prize for every one of our supporters. There’s no question PERM has a very supportive membership. Thanks to everyone who entered the raffle. We really count on your support [...]
PERM is sharing this pre-release version the Mille Equal Rights Foundation analysis of the Mille Lacs reservation boundary ruling. It follows the PERM/MERF joint filing of an amicus brief for an appeal of the ruling. MERF's report below describes the run-up to the Court's ruling and it's impact on the civil rights of non-tribal citizens in [...]
Allowing harvest of smaller fish offers more opportunity to keep a walleye The minimum length of walleye Mille Lacs Lake anglers can keep drops from 21 to 20 inches beginning Tuesday, Aug. 1. Mille Lacs' one-fish limit will remain in place, but the change allows anglers to keep one walleye between 20-23 inches or one longer [...]
There is a lot more to the story than what is reported below. Reasons for transferring this gem of Minnesota's outdoor heritage are window dressing for the DNR bureaucracy's dodging its responsibility to represent and serve ALL Minnesotans. See Rob Drieslein's intro below. UPPER SIOUX LAND Outdoor Insights By Rob Drieslein Outdoor News Minnesota July 14, [...]
Tribes being used to expand Federal jurisdiction over states PERM and Mille Lacs Equal Rights Foundation have jointly filed an Amicus Brief on the Mille Lacs reservation boundary ruling. The Brief supports Mille Lacs County's appeal of the Eighth Circuit court's ruling that the entire long-disestablished 61,000-acre reservation still exists. PERM early on committed to a [...]
Explanation reveals who the DNR really serves A story in Mixed Bag, DNR announces temporary, seasonal fishing closures, Outdoor News Minnesota, May 3, 2023 (below). The report exposes the DNR’s failure to serve all citizens of Minnesota. The DNR tries to finesse an obvious contradiction in their report on what waters get closed to protect spawning [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]