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FEBRUARY 16, 2001

In a meeting attendees called historic, tribal and county leaders in Minnesota this week discussed common concerns and shed past negative feelings about one another.

The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the Association of Minnesota Counties held the first tribal-county summit meeting at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs on the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Reservation. It was attended by 110 officials from all 11 tribes and 26 counties who ranked economic development, education, child welfare, housing and health care as their top concerns.

The MIAC also added the city of Bemidji to its advisory panel. It joins Duluth, St. Paul, and Minneapolis as being recognized as having a significant Indian population and will allow the city to have a representative on MIAC's urban advisory panel.

Get the Story:
Indian leaders, county officials find much to agree about at first summit (The Minneapolis Star Tribune 2/16)
Indian council approves Bemidji representation (AP 2/15)