Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

Recently awarded a $2.7M state grant, Leech Lake Financial Services' Wealth Creation Model aims to provide affordable housing and spur local workforce development.

The forest plans to thin red pine plantations, conduct prescribed burns and plant native seeds in the project area within the Leech Lake Reservation.

KAXE covered pushback on the LGBTQ+ community, changes in rural health care delivery, a coal ash spill at Boswell Energy Center, tribal land back efforts, helium mining and more.

The new memorandum of understanding between the USDA and Leech Lake Band bulids on a 2019 agreement for co-managing the national forest in Minnesota.

The federal funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce will allow the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe to develop a facility to process its own wild rice.

The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Red Lake Band of Chippewa, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and White Earth Nation received funds to increase tribal capacity to respond to violent crime and opioid abuse.

The remains of at least three people found in late August are believed to be several hundred years old and are of cultural significance to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.

Early test results show elevated sulfate levels in water, threatening Blackwater Lake's abundant wild rice. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency continues to oversee mitigation.

Contaminant tests are planned for Thursday. Major concerns have yet to emerge, but the Leech Lake emergency management director expressed concern about wild rice harvest impacts.

The transfer is part of the Leech Lake Land Restoration Act of 2020, reversing transfers by the Secretaries of Interior decades ago that were later found to be illegal.