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Article: White Earth Land Recovery project, more than just land: Protecting
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- March 31, 1995
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Winona LaDuke
News From Indian Country
03-31-1995
White Earth Land Recovery project, more than just land: Protecting. reservation lands, economy and community development spearheads projects at White Earth Ojibway reserve
Bob Shimek is the main organizer for the White Earth Land Recovery Project. A big guy, with a sheepish grin, he's mostly known as the mayor of Mahkonce, a small 3 house town on the intersection of State Highway 200 and Mahnomen County 4, with a wild rice processing mill.
Bob owns the mill and processes probably 20,000 pounds of wild rice a year -- for tribal members and the White Earth Tribe's Manitok operation.
Now is the season we eat rice, not manoominike (make it), ...
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...Ojibwe News, The 02-12-1999 White Earth removal petition now ready for signatures...that demand the removal of the entire White Earth Reservation's Business Committee (RBC...referred to the recent attempts made by the White Earth RBC to enter into a joint law-enforcement...
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