Fond du Lac band seeks to expand trust lands in Duluth
December 20, 2011 at 3:56 pm in Duluth News Tribune
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has applied for federal permission to increase the size of its reservation property within Duluth now home to the Fond-du-Luth Casino by stretching its boundaries to include the neighboring Carter Hotel property.
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After the crap they’ve pulled with the city, good luck.
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I have to agree with you on this one Tom.
Circle the wagons Donny Boy! You’re under attack!
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Now they are taking “our” land… funny
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First I have to say that I don’t support the way the Fond du lac band went about handling their beef with the city., – I don’t know all the details but a deals a deal and it appears as if suddenly they stopped paying without a new agreement or change of agreement. Still I find it more than amusing that Ness is mum about the loss of all the houses for the Red Plan off the tax rolls (and they hurt the other taxpayers much more than 1100 that the Carter Hotel pays (according to the article) – think 1000 for each house lost ? (and that is low since many of the homes were sold for 200,000. Why didn’t the council and the Mayor step in with those?
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Interesting the DNT isn’t allowing comment on the most recent story on the subject. I would love to listen to the discussion that go on in deciding on what stories are comentable and which aren’t.
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I wonder if Mayor Ness would be so outraged if the Catholic Church was going to buy up city property? They don’t pay taxes and they certainly don’t create jobs.
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The Catholic Church didn’t enter a contract saying they would pay the city. Your analogy is ridiculous, and I’m not even religious.
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Dave: I detected some unsavoury racist overtones which probably got more explicit and I suspect they pulled it. The articles and the readers’ comments are posted on MPR and the Area Voices blogs on Forum Comm’s publications.
The FDL band should accept the court’s decision and pay the $14m payments in arrears and Mayor Ness should not pursue any unnecessary litigation or do anything to antagonise the FDL Ojibwe as it will achieve nothing.
The FDL appear not forthcoming in their plans for the Carter Hotel and circumvented the City and all Duluthians by approaching the Feds before conferring or consulting the City. That’s out and out wrong.
I used to think the FDL were between a rock and a hard place when the Indian Gaming Commission prohibited payments, thereby leaving them in a position that either violated the Commission which might have bigger repurcussions on their other casinos or violating their contract with the City.
Now I’m not so sure.
What I am certain of is that only the lawyers stand to gain anything from any further litigation.
Duluth does not have the resources or the money to keep fighting the Indians and this does nothing to help the city’s reputation,,, trust me.
Let’s leave the egos out of this, claim and get the $14m, terminate the relationship and re-claim the property for another use.
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Good, sensible post Blighty.
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I also posted last night and my post was deleted. I am guessing it was because I referred to the land as “reservation” land. Bottom line, I am very confused as to who this land belongs to?? In the DNT article, it was referred to as a reservation.
I’ll ask my question to Blightly, you say, “claim and get the $14m, terminate the relationship and re-claim the property for another use”? I was under the impression that this was now soverign land and we could not take it back. Can Duluth just re-claim the land?
Could you explain how this whole deal went down? I would really appreciate it because there have been so many debates about this casino and I would love to know where the city stands in what it can do about it.
Great post as well!
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