FORT TOTTEN
Despite losing her job, ex-Spirit Lake social worker driven to push for change 
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. – Betty Jo Krenz can’t forget the desperate faces and voices she came to know while working with Head Start and foster-care children at Spirit Lake Nation.
By By Patrick Springer and Chuck Haga, Forum Communications , July 14, 2012
No justice yet for murdered Spirit Lake children
Slaying of two kids found dead under mattress last May in Spirit Lake home remains unsolvedST. MICHAEL, N.D. – Family and friends searched several days for Destiny DuBois and her little brother Travis DuBois Jr., after the children were reported missing by their father.
By By Patrick Springer and Chuck Haga, Forum Communications , July 14, 2012
Officials: Spirit Lake infant dies after ignored neglect reports
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. – The death Saturday of a 2-month-old girl whose mother was suspected of drug abuse and child neglect is the latest episode in what critics have described as an ongoing crisis of children at risk at Spirit Lake Nation, according to a federal official.
By By Patrick Springer and Chuck Haga, Forum Communications , July 10, 2012
Some Sioux say nickname ‘not our identity’
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. – They cringe each time they see or hear a news report about UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname and how their tribe, the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, has taken the lead in defending it.
By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications Co. , March 11, 2012
Husband, wife admit to embezzling from tribal organization
FARGO – A husband and wife pleaded guilty in federal court to embezzling from a Spirit Lake tribal organization earlier this week.
By Forum staff reports , January 13, 2012
10-year-old boy killed when struck by pickup
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. – A 10-year-old boy was killed Sunday evening after he was struck by a pickup west of Fort Totten.
August 30, 2011
Pickup-bicycle crash kills 10-year-old boy
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. - A 10-year-old boy was killed Sunday evening after he was struck by a pickup west of Fort Totten.
By Forum staff reports , August 29, 2011
ND men plead guilty in stolen money order case
GRAND FORKS — Authorities say two men have pleaded guilty to converting a stolen money order for cash.
By Associated Press , August 10, 2011
Court: Man accused of beating can be charged
BISMARCK — A federal appeals court says a Fort Totten man accused of hitting his common-law wife can be charged with a more severe count of domestic assault based on his convictions in a tribal court.
By Associated Press , July 06, 2011
Deaths of 2 North Dakota children treated as homicide
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. — Spirit Lake Nation prosecutor Joe Vetsch says the deaths of two children are being investigated as a homicide case.
By Associated Press , May 26, 2011
Trial set in fatal crash on North Dakota reservation
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. – Trial has been scheduled April 12 for a 19-year-old woman accused of driving drunk and causing a crash on the Spirit Lake Nation reservation that killed her younger sister.
By Associated Press , March 15, 2011
North Dakota reservation voting sites ordered open
BISMARCK – A federal judge has ruled that Benson County must open two polling sites on an American Indian reservation for the Nov. 2 election, though he says the county’s decision to close them wasn’t tied to racial discrimination.
By Associated Press , October 23, 2010
St. Michael woman sentenced in tribal theft
A St. Michael woman has been sentenced to three years probation for embezzling from the Spirit Lake Casino and Resort in Fort Totten.
By Associated Press , September 29, 2010
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