December news!

Nearly 12,000 acres to be returned to Leech Lake Band

“CASS LAKE, Minn. (AP) - A bill passed by Congress and headed to President Donald Trump’s desk will return nearly 12,000 acres of land in the Chippewa National Forest to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.

The government illegally seized the land from the tribe more than 70 years ago.”

— The Washington Times

Nez Perce Tribe reclaims 148 acres of ancestral land in Eastern Oregon

“The Nez Perce Tribe is reclaiming an ancestral village site in the Eastern Oregon town of Joseph more than a century after being pushed out the area.

This month, the tribe purchased 148 acres of an area known as “the place of boulders,” or Am’sáaxpa.”

— OPB.org (Oregon Public Broadcasting)