Attorneys for the county said the order frees the way to appeal an earlier ruling in the case, affirming the band's original 61,000 acre reservation still exists.
The Sartell, Minn. based company, however, has faced allegations of failing to provide adequate care to inmates, including 27-year-old Hardel Sherrell, who died in 2018 in the Beltrami County jail in Bemidji after his pleas for help were ignored by jail and medical staff.
They anglers included members of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa from Bayfield, Wis., one of six Ojibwe bands from Wisconsin that retain fishing rights on Mille Lacs, along with the Mille Lacs and Fond du Lac bands in Minnesota.
The order granted partial summary judgment for the band as part of the ongoing lawsuit brought in 2017 by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe against Mille Lacs County concerning the jurisdiction of the Mille Lacs Tribal Police.
While assisting with the medical call, one of the paramedics began to feel weak and dizzy and collapsed while on the scene and became unresponsive, the Mille Lacs County Sheriff's Office reported.
MILLE LACS COUNTY, Minn. -- Mille Lacs County officials announced Tuesday, Sept. 18, they reached an agreement with the Mille Lacs Band on the terms of a new law enforcement mutual aid and cooperative agreement.
ONAMIA, Minn.--A 34-year-old Onamia man was shot to death with investigators trying to track down a car seen near the crime scene. Mille Lacs County Sheriff Brent C. Lindgren reported the sheriff's office received a 911 call at 12:42 p.m. Sunday,...
BRAINERD, Minn. - The leader of a small tribe of Ojibwe in northern Minnesota thinks an increase in drug overdose deaths is due in part to county officials removing authority from her tribal police.The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe reservation sits m...
Two suspects are being held in connection with the death of teenager. William Anthony Nickaboine, a 19-year-old Mille Lacs Band member, disappeared on July 17. A community search party found his body Friday evening on Timber Trail Road in Onamia,...
