The four entities on Wednesday will officially announce a proposed partnership that seeks to "work toward the development of a new, state-of-the-art medical campus in Devils Lake."
The Spirit Lake Tribe, and members Collette Brown and Lois Leben, who are Benson County voters, say a Benson County redistricting plan adopted December 28, 2021 violates Native Americans’ voting rights by requiring Benson County Commissioners to be elected on an at-large basis, rather than by district.
At least 13 Native American boarding schools existed in North Dakota, including a large federally run institution at Fort Totten on the Spirit Lake Reservation.
The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and the State Historical Society of North Dakota recently agreed to partner in a search for the remains of children around the former Fort Totten Indian Industrial School, which lies on the Spirit Lake Reservation in the northeastern part of the state.