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Elders seek to oust Spirit Lake Tribal Council

A group of more than 30 elders on the Spirit Lake Nation Reservation is calling for the ouster of the Tribal Council.

April 12, 2013

North Dakota tribe launches war on illegal drugs

NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — The Three Affiliated Tribes in western North Dakota is spending $1 million on an effort to battle what it calls an illegal drug epidemic.

March 24, 2013

Spirit Lake official gets faulty court record corrected

An internet public records site operated by the state incorrectly showed a 2004 assault conviction for Mark Little Owl, director of Tribal Social Services at Spirit Lake. That case was dismissed, as were two similar charges brought in 2009, according to the clerk’s office at Grand Forks District Court.

By By Chuck Haga, Forum News Service , January 24, 2013

Appeal of Indian land trust settlement rejected

The U.S. Supreme Court won't consider a Colorado woman's challenge of a $3.4 billion settlement between the federal government and Native American land trust beneficiaries.

November 08, 2012

Spirit Lake whistle blower

A federal official who has repeatedly reported allegations of child abuse at Spirit Lake Nation wrote Tuesday to complain that investigators have failed to take action to protect victims from ongoing abuse.

By By Patrick Springer , Forum Communications , October 31, 2012

N.D. tribe meets to discuss child protection

The Spirit Lake tribe held a two-day conference on issues including child protection and family violence this week. The Grand Forks Herald reported the “Awareness and Healing” conference is part of the North Dakota tribe’s response to widespread criticism about child welfare on the reservation.

October 27, 2012

Little Owl out at Spirit Lake social services

A man hired in mid-August by the Spirit Lake Tribe to restore its embattled social services department says he will not continue as director after the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs takes over on Oct. 1.

September 21, 2012

National tribal group aims to register more voters

A national tribal advocacy group is planning a week of voter education and registration events in more than 130 communities across Indian Country in an effort to boost turnout in November.

September 21, 2012

Protecting kids, Federal official renews criticism of state officials’ actions

A federal official has renewed his criticisms that state human services officials have not acted aggressively enough to protect endangered children from the Spirit Lake reservation.

By By Patrick Springer , Forum Communications , August 29, 2012

Tribe seeks child services solution

Spirit Lake officials met here Monday with a “strike team” of U.S. Interior Department officials, hoping to reassure the director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and others that they are making progress on improving the tribe’s embattled social services department. Tribal chairman Roger Yankton said that he and other tribal leaders “are reassuring them that we’re working on this.”

By By Chuck Haga , Forum Communications , August 28, 2012

Did rejection of grant also mean missed chance to protect Spirt Lake children?

A refusal by the 2011 North Dakota Legislature to advance anything linked to “Obamacare” blocked a federally-funded program that could have aided child protection on the Spirit Lake Sioux reservation, according to two House Democrats and the head of a state group working to end child abuse.

By By Chuck Haga, Forum Communciations , August 23, 2012

$3.4B settlement objector petitions Supreme Court

A woman who challenged a $3.4 billion settlement between the U.S. government and Native American land trust beneficiaries is asking the Supreme Court to take up her case.

August 22, 2012

Reprimand lifted for Spirit Lake whistleblower

The Indian Health Service has rescinded its reprimand of a clinical psychiatrist who sounded the alarm over what he regarded as systemic failures to protect endangered children of the Spirit Lake Tribe

By By Patrick Springer , Forum Communications , August 03, 2012

A hopeful step for native children

The arrest of a 19-year-old for the murder of two Spirit Lake Reservation children is an important, visible step in an ongoing and often frustrating effort to protect American Indian children. Valentino Bagola was charged by federal authorities with four counts of murder in connection with the deaths of 6-year-old Travis Lee DuBois Jr. and 9-year-old Destiny Jane Shaw DuBois. He pleaded not guilty. The reservation is south of Devils Lake.

By The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead , August 01, 2012

New Tonto, familiar feelings for Native Americans

Gyasi Ross grew up decades after the “Lone Ranger” aired on TV, but his friends would still call him “Tonto” when they teased him.

July 25, 2012

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