County to work with Lac Courte Oreilles Band on mining camp

Wednesday, July 31, 2013  

Officials in Iron County, Wisconsin, said they will sit down with the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe Indians to discuss the tribe's mining protest camp.

“To hear you speak about coming back to the table is good words to our ears,” vice chairman Russell Barber told county commissioners at a public meeting on Tuesday night, The Ironwood Daily Globe reported. Barber offered tobacco as a sign of cooperation.

The tribe set up the camp to protest the proposed Gogebic Taconite mine. Chairman Mic Isham has previously said the camp is located on ceded lands that are covered by numerous treaties.

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