Wow, cool photo and great article! Karen Diver is doing such great things.

There we go dbb, I was wondering if that would come up. I have not completely made up my mind on this one because I have mixed interests.  In the end I hope that the band decides to maintain its part of the agreement and keep paying the city.    

As far as I know, the Fond du Lac Band and the Lake Superior Chippewa people have abided by every single treaty or agreement they have ever entered into with the people of Minnesota and the United States Government in the past 170 or so years.  Unfortunately (or maybe I should say "tragically") you can't say the same thing for the government.  In fact, just the opposite is true.  Any talk of agreements between Native Americans and state or national governments must be discussed in that context.

I've got no skin in the game one way or the other. I just find it curious that they stop making payments on an agreement that is around 20 years old, and claim it was never valid to begin with. It will be interesting to see how it plays out in court, and how the community deals with the aftermath.