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ND National Guard to dedicate Lakota helicopter
The North Dakota Army National Guard is partnering with several tribes in the Dakotas to dedicate the Guard's newest Lakota helicopter.
Friday, August, 31, 2012 - - News

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DOJ awards Dakotas tribes $1 million in grants
The Department of Justice has awarded more than $1 million to four Native American tribes in the Dakotas to enhance sex offender registration and notification programs.
Thursday, August, 30, 2012 - - News

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Federal official criticizes state agency for failing to protect Spirit Lake children
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.
Wednesday, August, 29, 2012 - Forum Communications - News

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Man sentenced for child abuse on Spirit Lake Reservation
A Tokio man has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for abusing a 2-year-old boy on the Spirit Lake Reservation.
Tuesday, August, 28, 2012 - - News

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Hoeven says ‘hard deadline’ set on possible federal takeover at Spirit Lake
Sen. John Hoeven, saying some “hard timelines are needed,” says officials have set Sept. 10 as the date to decide whether the Spirit Lake Tribe can continue running its social services programs or federal officials should assume control.
Tuesday, August, 28, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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BIA director: Spirit Lake issues need to be resolved and corrected
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. – Spirit Lake officials met here today 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.
Monday, August, 27, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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Interior sends high-level officials to Spirit Lake
The U.S. Department of the Interior will dispatch a “strike team” of senior officials including the director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Spirit Lake Nation Monday, according to the department.
Saturday, August, 25, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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OUR OPINION: Crisis at Spirit Lake transcends partisanship
The origins of the crisis crossed party lines — and leaders will need to cross party lines to find solutions, too.
Friday, August, 24, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - Opinion

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Conrad: Spirit Lake lacks leadership on child protection
Saying that the Spirit Lake Nation “seems to be a rudderless ship” lacking the leadership necessary to deal with a crisis in child protection on the reservation, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said he will call Interior Secretary Ken Salazar “and ask him to send in a team” to do what needs to be done.
Thursday, August, 23, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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NCAA scoffs at ‘discrimination’ claim
Fighting Sioux nickname supporters at Spirit Lake Sioux Nation base their appeal of a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit against the NCAA on a claim that was never raised at trial and “has no support in fact or law,” the NCAA argues in a brief filed Wednesday with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Thursday, August, 23, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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State says it offered to help tribe protect children
Tara Muhlhauser, director of the Children and Family Services Division, also advised Tom Sullivan that her office “has repeatedly offered to provide technical assistance… to help the tribe better serve children,” but the tribe “has not taken advantage of our offer.”
Thursday, August, 23, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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Did Legislature miss chance to protect Spirit Lake children?
Democrats say Republicans would not approve federal grants for a home-visitation program that could have protected vulnerable children on reservations because of its link to “Obamacare.” Republican say they were concerned the program would violate privacy rights and long-term federal funding was uncertain. Nonprofit groups are now pursuing the grants.
Thursday, August, 23, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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Telemedicine technology an asset to rural healthcare
A serious leg injury could have cost Mark Romfo valuable time in the middle of planting season last spring on his farm near Langdon, N.D. But his doctor, 120 miles away in Grand Forks, was able to monitor his progress with the help of telemedicine technology.
Monday, August, 20, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - Accent

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Memorial ride to heal spirits from Red Lake tragedy
Runners and horseback riders who traveled from Spirit Lake Indian Reservation, N.D., to the Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minn., on a memorial unity ride will attend a ceremony today to honor those who died in the 2005 Red Lake High School shootings.
Saturday, August, 18, 2012 - Forum Communications - News

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Official: Safety of Spirit Lake children not better
A federal human services administrator who called on state and federal officials to declare a state of emergency for children at the Spirit Lake Nation has submitted another scathing indictment of child protection services there, alleging that little has been done to improve the situation.
Friday, August, 17, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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OUR OPINION: U.S. Senate could have a role at Spirit Lake
In the statement, the tribal government suggests that it inherited the problem, that it’s dealing with it effectively and that whistleblowers and a malevolent press have made things worse. This level of defensiveness undermines the effectiveness of the tribe’s statement.
Sunday, August, 12, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - Opinion

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Nickname appeal: NCAA used ‘cartel powers’
In their campaign earlier this year to persuade North Dakota voters to rally to UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname, proponents regularly argued that university leaders were exaggerating the potential harm that keeping the name and logo could do.
Saturday, August, 11, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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Betty Jo Krenz, Jamestown, letter: Authorities need to deal with Spirit Lake kids issue
I am very happy for Michael Tilus and his recent almost-never-heard-of “win,” but the unfortunate truth is, this does nothing for the immediate safety and well-being of the children on the reservation.
Friday, August, 10, 2012 - - Opinion

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Spirit Lake Nation responds to critics, challenges motives of 'whistleblowers'
In a lengthy statement published this week in the Devils Lake Journal, the Spirit Lake Tribe decried recent criticism of tribal social service programs involving child protection.
Friday, August, 10, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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Organizers: Nickname measure pushed to 2014
Diehard supporters of UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname say they continue collecting signatures to force another statewide vote on the issue, but they won’t file the signatures until December — meaning the initiated measure would appear on the ballot in June 2014.
Tuesday, August, 07, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News

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