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The 2024 election cycle had been marked by widespread doxxing, swatting, and threats against several politicians and activists, with a particular series of incidents starting in December 2023. [155] [156] [157] On November 4, 2024, a white supremacist was arrested for plotting an attack on an electrical substation in Nashville, Tennessee. [158]
The White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, [1] also called the White Earth Nation (Ojibwe: Gaa-waabaabiganikaag Anishinaabeg, lit. "People from where there is an abundance of white clay"), is a federally recognized Native American band in northwestern Minnesota. The band's land base is the White Earth Indian Reservation.
She is a citizen of the White Earth Nation. She got her start as a community organizer organizing the urban indigenous community, including for U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone's 2002 reelection campaign. Flanagan was elected to and served on the Minneapolis Public Schools Board from 2005 to 2009. In 2015, Flanagan was elected to fill a vacancy in ...
White Earth Nation and Red Lake Nation plan to take advantage of their sovereignty and allow sales right away. But the state projects most legal retail sales won’t begin until early 2025, while ...
Oct. 24—BEMIDJI — The White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe announced on Friday, Oct. 21, that it will soon close its purchase of Ridgeway Courts I and II in Bemidji, with the ...
Superchief is a 1999 documentary film directed by Nick Kurzon, that is about a campaign and election for a new White Earth Nation tribal chairman for the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation. Its running time is 72 minutes. The film was screened at the Los Angeles AFI Film Festival. [1] Its television debut was on the HBO Signature channel. [2]
Erma Jean Vizenor is an Ojibwe politician and educator. She served as the tribal chair of the White Earth Nation from 2004 to 2016. Under her leadership, White Earth adopted a new tribal constitution.
Three Minnesota Chippewa Tribe bands had candidates win more than 50% of the votes in June primaries, eliminating the need for a general election: Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe incumbent tribal chair Faron Jackson Sr., [199] White Earth Nation incumbent chief executive Michael Fairbanks, [200] and, on the Grand Portage Indian Reservation ...