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	Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
		In 1849, the reservation granted to Chief Shab-eh-nay in the Treaty of Prairie du Chien was illegally sold through public auction by the U.S. government.
		Prairie People’s Park is refurbished and the 2002 Gathering of Nations is held at the rejuvenated park.
		Individuals living on the reservation are allowed a choice of emergency responders from the Nation or Jackson County.
	www.pbpindiantribe.com /timeline1.htm (1664 words)

	Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Prairie Island nuclear power plant is an electricity-generating facilitiy located in Red Wing, Minnesota along the Mississippi River, adjacent to the Prairie Island Indian Community reservation.
		Opposition by environmentalists and the neighboring Prairie Island tribe led the Minnesota Legislature to decrease the number of allowed casks to 17, enough to keep the plant operating through approximately 2003.
		Prairie Island Coalition – a group opposing the storage of reactor waste
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prairie_Island_Nuclear_Power_Plant (422 words)

	USCA1 Opinion 04-1155
		The State initially filed its complaint in Rhode Island state court and the Narragansetts removed the case to federal district court in an attempt to have it decided together with the Tribe's complaint, which was brought in federal district court.
		When on-reservation conduct involving only Indians is at issue, state law is generally inapplicable, for the State's regulatory interest is likely to be minimal and the federal interest in encouraging tribal self-government is at its strongest.
		Indian tribes are "distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original natural rights" in matters of local self-government.
	www.ca1.uscourts.gov /cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=04-1155.01A (6815 words)

	A nuclear threat looms over Prairie Island Community : ICT [2001/08/13]
		The small tribe has lived on Prairie Island for generations and consider it a sacred place, one where their medicine gatherers came hundreds of years ago to pick medicines to heal their people.
		The small island that sits at the confluence of the Vermilion and Mississippi Rivers in Minnesota, some 30 miles southeast of St. Paul, near Red Wing, is subject to periodic flooding.
		The future of the small island in Minnesota is unclear, but for now children play in the shadow of the nearby reactors unaware of the danger around them.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=158 (1202 words)

	PRAIRIE ISLAND DAKOTA (Sioux) Indian Reservation, Minnesota
		In 1899 the small reservation on a low-lying island on the banks of the Mississippi was established for the Prairie Island Dakota Community by act of Congress in 1889.
		Prairie Island Mdewakanton elder Amos Owen conducts a Pipe ceremony on one of the small patches of land detached from the reservation village, in 1978.
		Prairie Island Bill-1996 HF 2784, SF 2495 Legislative watch on the latest Minnesota legislature bills re the Prairie Island nuke and radioactive storage.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/maps/mn/prairie.htm (1723 words)

	Prairie Island Tribe passes referendum, Xcel Energy Waste Bill becomes law : ICT [2003/06/10]
		At the time the Prairie Island tribe lacked resources and funding to fight against construction of the plant.
		Prairie Island tribal elder Chris Leith, also known as Brave Thunderhorse, recalls "Over the years we have seen our tribal members become ill with cancer and other unexplained sicknesses, and now we can't even use the plants we once used for healing and medicines.
		When exiting from the east door at dusk, the first sight to behold is not the starry sky or the tall prairie grasses, but the large, imposing praying mantis-like concrete reactor towers.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1055253145 (742 words)

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		The Mdewakanton, "those who were born of the waters," have lived on Prairie Island for countless generations.
		Located in south eastern Minnesota along the wooded shores of the Mississippi and Vermillion Rivers, Prairie Island is a spiritual place for our people.
		Indian Gaming is what gives our tribal government the tools we need to operate our community and provide for our people.
	www.prairieisland.org (148 words)

	U.S. Geological Survey Activities Related to American Indians and Alaska Natives Fiscal Year 1997
		In order for individual Indian tribes to be able to assess the potential for developing their water resources, they must have an idea of the quantity, quality, and availability of water on their lands.
		The purpose of this study is to assess the vulnerability of the ground water in the Tokio and Warwick aquifers in the Fort Totten Division of the Spirit Lake Reservation to surface contamination.
		Surface water of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, ranging from pristine mountain streams and glacial lakes to prairie wetlands, are a natural resource of cultural and economic importance to the Blackfeet.
	www.usgs.gov /indian/resource.html (4782 words)

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		(a) The bona fide Indian residents of the Prairie Island Reservation whose names appear on, or are entitled to appear on the official census roll of the Minnesota Mdewakanton Sioux Indians as of April 1, 1934, with the official supplement thereto of January 1, 1935.
		The governing body of the Community organization shall be called "The Community Council of the Prairie Island Indian Reservation", and shall be composed of five members who shall be duly elected by secret ballot by the qualified voters of the Community.
		Community funds may be used, with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior, to acquire land for the Prairie Island Indian Community.
	thorpe.ou.edu /IRA/picons.html (3499 words)

	Prairie Island indians have mixed fortunes :: Paganality.com :: (yes, it's magik :) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prairie Island has hired a contractor for what it calls the reservation's first thorough health study.
		Prairie Island became a political power as a major campaign contributor and lobbyist.
		Prairie Island provides full scholarships to band members for any level of higher education - as long as they graduate, or the money must be repaid.
	www.paganality.com /print.php?sid=1704 (1449 words)

	MN Home Page
		Reservation lawsuit must be disclosed to buyers (MINNESOTA) -- The fact that there is a federal lawsuit pending over the boundaries of the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation should be disclosed by real estate agents to potential buyers of land within the disputed 61,000-acre area
		New status for Indian law: It'll be on the bar Newly wealthy tribes enter the economic mainstream and bring their sovereign legal status with them.
		Indians, federal and state entities sign transportation accord (MINNESOTA) -- Representatives of Minnesota's 11 American Indian tribes, along with representatives of the Federal Highway Administration and Minnesota Department of Transportation reached a new level of cooperation Monday during the Tribes and Transportation Summit in Hinckley.
	www.indiangamingnews.com /MN_home_archives.htm (1931 words)

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		Prairie in Ontario is situated in roughly a triangle stretching from the tip of Georgian Bay, southwest to Lake St. Clair, then northeast to the Trent River, and west to Georgian Bay.
		In a continuum of ecosystem dilineation determined by an increasing requirement for moisture, savannah is the ecosystem that is situated between tallgrass prairie and oak forest.
		Prairie is being restored or created in many places in Ontario as people come to appreciate its beauty and uniqueness.
	www.fes.uwaterloo.ca /resources/ecology/projects/prairie/where.html (554 words)

	SCHOLAR ISLAND
		The Indian form of leadership may not have the pomp and personality satisfactions that the European version of leadership seems to thrive on, but it must be remembered the form of government under which the general public lives was originally an Indian form of government.
		You are on an Indian reservation merely at the sufferance of the government.
		Where the Indian passed in dignity, disturbing nothing and leaving Nature as he had found her; with nothing to record his passage, except a footprint or a broken twig, the white man plundered and wasted and shouted; frightening the silences with his great, braying laughter and his cursing.
	www.scholarisland.com /ameri-indians.htm (7466 words)

	Committee on Indian Affairs
		S.437 (Levin) A bill to expedite review of the grand River Band of Ottawa Indians of Michigan to secure a timely and just determination of whether that group is entitled to recognition as a Federal Indian tribe.
		S.480 (Allen) A bill to extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe--Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
		S.1239 (McCain) A bill to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to permit the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe, a tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization to pay the monthly part D premium of eligible medicare beneficiaries.
	indian.senate.gov /109_leg.htm (1675 words)

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		The Community Council of the Prairie Island Indian Reservation established in accordance with the said Constitution and By-laws of the Community shall exercise all the corporate powers hereinafter enumerated.
		The termination shall be effective upon ratification by a majority vote at an election in which at least 30 per cent of the adult members of the Community residing on the Reservation shall vote.
		Submitted by the Acting Secretary of the Interior for ratification by the Prairie Island Indian Community of the Prairie Island Reservation in a popular referendum to be held on July 23, 1937.
	thorpe.ou.edu /IRA/pichrtr.html (865 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Catalina Island buffalo moved to South Dakota prairie
		From there, it was on to the reservation, where the animals should arrive on Thursday night.
		Buffalo, or bison, have been on the island since an original herd of 14 was brought from the prairie to appear in the silent movie, "The Vanishing American." The animals were left on the island after the movie wrapped, and the herd flourished.
		The Lakota reservation already has a herd of buffalo, and the conservancy said there shouldn't be any problems with the newcomers acclimating, despite the fact that they'll be moving from balmy California to a place with subzero weather.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20041215-1717-wst-islandbuffalo.html (666 words)

	Child Welfare League of America: Children's Voice Article: Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thousands of Indian children were sent, or forcibly taken, to these schools, where they learned English and Christianity and were allowed little or no contact with their families.
		The policy of assimilation took a more aggressive tone in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, when thousands of Indian children were removed from their families by missionaries or social workers and placed in foster homes or with non-Indian adoptive parents.
		In 1978, the Indian Child Welfare Act (PL 95-608) became law, seeking to prevent the unwarranted removal of Indian children; ensure that, when they must be removed, they are placed in homes that reflect their culture; and preserve tribes.
	www.cwla.org /articles/cv0203indianadopt.htm (2080 words)

	EVELYN WENDLER-NELSON: An Inventory of Her Papers Relating to the Prairie Island Indian Community
		Typescripts and photographs containing biographical and historical information on the Prairie Island Indian Community and, especially, on members of the Rouillard and Wells families who settled there beginning in the 1880s.
		An article by Harry Willis on the Prairie Island community, from the Red Wing Daily Republican-Eagle (June 1958) gives information on the origins of the Nebraska Santee Dakota, their expulsion from Nebraska, and the relocation of many to Prairie Island.
		Dakota Indians -- Minnesota -- Prairie Island -- Genealogy.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/p2314.html (429 words)

	KAALtv.com - 6 NEWS FIRST Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This Xcel Energy facility is near the Prairie Island Indian Reservation--visible from Treasure Island casino.
		Emergency responders performed an exercise this week that simulated what would happen if there was an accident at the plant causing a release of dangerous radiation.
		The Department of Homeland Security conducts an emergency response exercise at the nuclear plant on Prairie Island every two years.
	www.kaaltv.com /article/view/102532 (279 words)

	Environment: Global Issues Regional Applications
		The Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota community never had a voice in the decision to have a nuclear neighbor, let alone one within a 5-minute walk of their day care center.
		The Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Community has the dubious destination of being the closest community to a nuke plant in the United States.
		The nuclear industry, of which the XCel Prairie Island plant is a part, practices racism.
	www.uwlax.edu /murphy/environment/racism/local2.html (467 words)

	Journal of Folklore Research - Book Notes
		At that time Clifton had no long-term plans to study the Potawatomi; his dreams were focused on Yap, the Pacific island he had visited in the military during World War II.
		For example, in discussing the Treaty of Chicago, Clifton suggests that the Indian commissioners had the help of certain "secret weapons," which he refers to as "Subagent Ardent Spirits, Colonel John Silver, and the Reverend Utmost Chicanery"(239).
		While he takes into account factors such as multiple migration trips by certain individuals, the presence of MÈtis, incorrect birth and death estimates, and the ethics of civilian contractors, he does not provide the actual figures that contribute to his final estimate.
	iupjournals.org /folklore/book/prairie.html (739 words)

	Constitution and by-laws of the Prairie Island Indian community in Minnesota : a machine readable transcription.
		Constitution and by-laws of the Prairie Island Indian community in Minnesota : a machine readable transcription.
		) The bona fide Indian residents of the Prairie Island Reservation whose names appear on, or are entitled to appear on the official census roll of the Minnesota Mdewakanton Sioux Indians as of April 1, 1934, with the official supplement thereto of January 1, 1935.
		This Constitution and Bylaws may be amended by a majority vote of the qualified voters of the Prairie Island Indian Community voting at an election called for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior:
	memory.loc.gov /ll/llnc/306/llnc306.sgm (3934 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The executive director at the State of Utah Division of Indian Affairs described the invisibility of Utah Indian tribes as follows5: Indians are invisible in Utah.
		For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of flness to come upon them.
		American Indian activists engaged in the environmental justice movement have explicitly addressed the importance of sovereignty (Pulido 1996b).
	aesop.rutgers.edu /~enviro/AMERICANINDIAN.DOC (6925 words)

	5_10 Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A reminder of the activities for the day was considered before we embarked on the journey to Red Wing then on to Prairie Island, the Indian Reservation to meet Joe Campbell.
		We met Joe on the reservation, (one of the five in Minnesota) he being an elder, Story- Teller and an Anti-nuclear activist.
		He touched on the history of the Prairie Island Reservation (since 1886), burial process, significance of water, family history among many other points.
	cgee.hamline.edu /rivers/ROL03/5_10journal.html (659 words)

	EPA Region 5 Tribes - Prairie Island Community
		The Prairie Island Indian Community is located on Prairie Island, above the confluence of the Vermillion and Mississippi Rivers, in southeastern Minnesota.
		The Community has 300 individuals residing on the Reservation, and close to a total of 700 Community Members.
		The Community is organized under 25 U.S.C Section 476 and is governed under the terms of the Constitution and By-Laws adopted by tribal members on May 23, 1936 and approved by the Secretary of the Interior on June 20, 1936.
	www.epa.gov /Region5/tribes/tribepages/prairieisland.htm (272 words)

	Minnesota Indian Tribes: Reservations, Treaties
		Relevant ones re Prairie Island are #8 and #9 and latest one posted (Friday 4/11) Saturday, saying)at end) some Prairie Island Dakota community homes under water.
		PGiese rough notes and long & short source docs re Prairie Island Dakota Indian community and the NSP nuke and dry hot casks by it in the floods of april 1997 expected to crest (both Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers) Sunday or Monday, about the same time near lock & dam (i.e.
		These historical documents were mostly compiled for presentation in the unsuccessful attempts of the Miami tribe of Indiana to achieve federal recognition, the University is putting some of this on-line as a library.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/maps/mn/mnrezmap.html (664 words)

	Treasure Island Resort & Casino
		Treasure Island Resort and Casino is a bright economic opportunity for members of the Prairie Island Indian Community who own and operate the casino.
		Revenue generated by this tribal enterprise is being used to improve the infrastructure of the reservation.
		A new sewer and water system, group health and life insurance, and a fund for post-high-school education are some of the many benefits from the casino’s operation.
	www.treasureislandcasino.com /company/community.asp (128 words)

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