Nelson Act News Today

His role gains relevance as tribes lobby to recover some of their territory.

“Before 1934, look at what was happening — those atrocities, the Dawes Act and the Nelson Act. The timber barons were taking all of our land..."

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of the Giiwedinong Museum in Park Rapids, Minnesota.

By Isaac White. An emotionally charged gathering unfolded within the auditorium of the Cloquet Forestry Center recently, marking a significant

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of the Giiwedinong Museum in Park Rapids, Minnesota.

At a listening session Tuesday in Cloquet, adviser Karen Diver said they have reached a "memorandum of understanding in concept," but that specific details are still being negotiated.

The University of Minnesota is set to return the Cloquet Forestry Center to the Fond du Lac Band

White Earth Reservation Business Committee passed a new water resolution.

While farmers on and near White Earth Nation believe state officials control irrigation permits, the band believes it retained the right to control water rights through treaties with the government.

For millennia, Native Americans have used fire to protect the land, replenish native plant life, and create habitat. Now, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is bringing back Indigenous burning practices in Minnesota’s north-central pine forest.