SPIRIT LAKE
UND NEWS UND to celebrate third installment of More than Beads and Feathers poster campaign
The University of North Dakota is proud to present its third series of More Than Beads and Feathers posters, featuring highly accomplished graduates from a variety of tribal affiliations and majors. T...
Posted on 4/5/12 at 3:03 PM
THE DULLUM FILE Williams & Ree, Connie and Me
Had a great time at the party last night to celebrate Spirit Lake Casino's expansion. Stretching almost the entire length of the resort's new Red Willow and Cedar Ballrooms, the buffet table may...
Posted on 2/27/10 at 1:00 AM
THE CITY BEAT Lots of big stakes in nickname debate
Now that the City Beat is playing catch up, let's talk a little about last week's court hearing on the Fighting Sioux nickname. Briefly, nickname supporters from the Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation are sui...
Posted on 12/14/09 at 6:34 AM
Yankton still Spirit Lake chairman 
GRAND FORKS – Roger Yankton Sr. remains chairman of the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, says Leander “Russ” McDonald, the man elected to replace him at an emergency general assembly on Sunday.
By Chuck Haga, Forum News Service , April 16, 2013
Meeting at Spirit Lake on tribe’s child protection services efforts open to public
A meeting scheduled by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to provide Spirit Lake Sioux leaders and members an update on efforts to improve the tribe’s child protection services will be open to the public, a spokesman for Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., confirmed.
By Chuck Haga , February 26, 2013
Spirit Lake official faces charges in domestic disturbance
GRAND FORKS – Mark Little Owl, hired last summer by the Spirit Lake Sioux to manage the tribe’s beleaguered child protection program, faces assault and other charges in connection with an Aug. 21 domestic disturbance at a Grand Forks apartment.
By Chuck Haga, Forum News Service , January 22, 2013
Tribe targets violent reputation with conference
SPIRIT LAKE NATION – With grim autopsy photos, recordings of bungled 911 calls and security video of a man strangling a woman to the point of unconsciousness in a casino parking lot, two Bureau of Indian Affairs police officers sought to make a point here Thursday:
By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications , October 25, 2012
Hoeven, nominee for Indian Affairs talk
NDorth Dakota senator presses for federal involvement in Spirit Lake issues<.strong>GRAND FORKS – Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., met Wednesday with Kevin Washburn, President Barack Obama’s nominee to serve as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs at the Interior Department, pressing him “to be fully involved in the effort to address allegations of abuse and neglect at Spirit Lake.”
By Forum Communications , September 12, 2012
Protecting Spirit Lake's Children: No word on cause of baby’s death
Autopsy completed but investigators still await lab test results on 2-month-old girlFARGO – An investigation into the July 7 death of a 2-month-old on the Spirit Lake Reservation continues.
By Patrick Springer , September 05, 2012
Offer allows Spirit Lake prosecutor to take cases federal
FARGO – Federal prosecutors have offered to make the Spirit Lake Tribe’s prosecutor a special U.S. attorney and to help the tribe develop a strategic plan to protect children from violence.
By Patrick Springer , September 04, 2012
Feds to send ‘strike team’ to Spirit Lake, including BIA head
GRAND FORKS – The U.S. Department of the Interior will dispatch a “strike team” of senior officials to the Spirit Lake Nation Monday, including the director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, according to the department.
By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications , August 24, 2012
Federal officials step up oversight of Spirit Lake Tribe social services programs
Letter alerted officials to ‘dangerous malpractice history’FARGO – Federal officials are stepping up oversight of the Spirit Lake Tribe’s social services programs in response to warnings that children’s health and safety are endangered by mismanagement.
By Patrick Springer , May 18, 2012
Tribal college to show documentary, host talk on Indian sexual violence
CASS LAKE, Minn. – An American Indian woman is twice more likely than all other races to be raped or sexually assaulted.
By Bethany Wesley, Forum Communications Co. , April 24, 2012
North Dakota woman pleads guilty in fatal accident
FARGO — A woman faces up to eight years in federal prison for a fatal traffic accident on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.
By Associated Press , April 15, 2011
Five Spirit Lake tribal officers, employees indicted
GRAND FORKS — U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon says five Spirit Lake tribal officers and employees have been indicted on theft and embezzlement charges in three separate cases.
By Associated Press , April 09, 2011
UPDATED: Passionate pleas from both sides in "Fighting Sioux" legislative committee hearing
BISMARCK – Members of the state Board of Higher Education did all they could over the past three years to afford the people of North Dakota’s two Sioux Indian tribes opportunities to speak to the University of North Dakota “Fighting Sioux” nickname controversy, board Vice President Grant Shaft told a legislative committee Wednesday.
By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications Co. , January 27, 2011
Spirit Lake Tribe wants polling place
The Spirit Lake Tribe will seek an injunction this week asking a federal court to prevent Benson County from closing polling places on the Spirit Lake Reservation for the Nov. 2 General Election.
By Kevin Bonham, Forum Communications Co. , October 12, 2010
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