Articles

MN Treaties:

• "As Long as the Grass Grows and the Rivers Flow"
• Treaty of 1837
• 1850 Presidential Order
• Treaty with the Chippewa, 1855
• Treaty with the Chippewa, 1854
• Treaty with the Chippewa, 1864
• MAP: Minnesota Treaty Areas

Treaty Rights:

• Bud Grant Report
• Indian Understanding - Judge Murphy Was Wrong
• Historian Knocks Defeated Mille Lacs Agreement
• The "Understanding" Issue After 157 Years
• Save Minnesota for $1,500,000
• Why We Oppose Tribal Hunting and Fishing Claims
• Who Really Needs Treaty Rights in 1997?

Sovereignty:

• 50 Years Past The Deadline...
• Accountability and Its Effect on Indian Law
• American Indians, Citizens or Slaves?
• Ground Breaking Legal Work May Turn the Tide
• Sovereignty and Civil Rights

Environment:

• The New Mille Lacs Plan: A Closer Look (PDF)
• The New Mille Lacs Agreement: Pros & Cons (PDF)
• The Mille Lacs Fish Management Plan (PDF)
• Safe-Harvest Politics (PDF)
• Why the DNR is Wrong about Mille Lacs (PDF)
• What Industry Can Create Economic Growth...?
• America On Sale

PERM Newsletter - Volume 3.3:

• "We're In!" Landowners In Mille Lacs Treaty Case to Present Arguments Before U.S. Supreme Court
• From the Chairman
• Mining the Government
• Save Minnesota Fundraising Passes $750,000 Mark
• Supreme Court Takes Mille Lacs Treaty Case
• Bud Grant praises sportsmen, applauds Supreme Court review of treaty case
• Tribal Courts
• Cass County Wins 9-0 at Supreme Court
• It Takes All Kinds to Make Fundraising Work

PERM Newsletter - Volume 3.4:

• Hearing Date Set For Mille Lacs 1837 Treaty Case!
• From the Chairman
• Thanks Les, For All You Gave
• Save Minnesota Fundraising Passes $940,000 Mark
• Thanks to Those Who Contributed Through United Way
• 5% Payback Program

PERM Newsletter - Volume 4.1:

• U.S. Supreme Court reviews Mille Lacs treaty case
• From the Chairman
• 5% Payback Program
• Save Minnesota Fundraising Passes $955,000 Mark
• Artist Supports Equal Hunting and Fishing Rights
• Court Rules For State In Wisconsin Case

PERM Newsletter - Volume 4.2:

• U.S. Supreme Court rules that Chippewa still have treaty rights in Mille Lacs Case...Summary of Court's decision and dissents
• From the Chairman
• A court ruling that allows for separate laws hasn't worked anywhere
• Grant, Hanson, and PERM attacked...Columnists and editors scold opponents of '93 settlement
• Save Minnesota Fundraising Reaches $1,000,000 Milestone
• The Mille Lacs Treaty Case is over, but don't stop fighting for what you believe in.

PERM Newsletter - Volume 4.3:

• Tribal regulation and intimidation at Grand Portage
• From the Chairman
• Taxation Without Representation
• Could all of the Arrowhead Region fall under tribal control?
• Treaty harvest raises questions of whose laws apply, which courts have jurisdiction
• Save Minnesota Fundraising Reaches $1,000,000 Milestone
• Other news from around the country
• Cass board asks Attorney General's Office for opinion on TERO

PERM Newsletter - Volume 4.4:

• Mille Lacs Band Offers Deal for Legal Fees
• From the Chairman
• State court/tribal court joint committee predictably divided
• Save Minnesota Fundraising Reaches $1,079,000 Milestone
• Other news from around the country
• Thanks to Those Who Contributed Through United Way

PERM Newsletter - Volume 5.1:

• Is the Mille Lacs Band going to take it all back?
• From the Chairman
• As for the state paying tribal legal fees...
• Save Minnesota Fundraising Reaches $1,093,000
• Other news from around the country

PERM Newsletter - Volume 5.2:

• Tribal jurisdiction and its effect on local government and equal rights
• From the Chairman
• Taxes on sportsmen being used against them.
• Save Minnesota fundraising reaches $1,129,000
• Other news from around the country

PERM Newsletter - Volume 5.3:

• PERM supporters joined by CERA in meeting with political leaders
• From the Chairman
• Media in sewer with hysterical "pollution" coverage.
• Save Minnesota fundraising reaches $1,165,000
• Raffle winners
• Other news from around the country

PERM Newsletter - Volume 5.4:

• Meetings to outline 1854 treaty dispute
• From the Chairman
• Hunting Heritage Act passed out of the U.S. House
• Save Minnesota fundraising reaches $1,198,000
• Thanks to those who contributed through United Way
• Other news from around the country
• Election 2000
• Letters to PERM

PERM Newsletter - Volume 6.1:

• State concedes treaty rights for Chippewa in Minnesota's Arrowhead region
• From the Chairman
• "Ready to Rise" available for shipment...
• Save Minnesota fundraising reaches $1,216,000
• Other news from around the country
• PERM's summer raffle clears $7,600!
• Roger Sampson, engraver: making PERM commemorative rifles special!

PERM Newsletter - Volume 6.2:

• PERM files briefs with Supreme Court in case with national ramifications.
• Parting thoughts from the Chairman
• PERM Annual Meeting 3/28/01
• Save Minnesota fundraising reaches $1,248,000
• Other news from around the country
• Letters to PERM

PERM Newsletter - Volume 6.3:

• U.S. SUPREME COURT SAYS NO TO TRIBAL TAX.
  PERM plays important role in ruling.
• From the Chairman
• Thoughts on my trip to Washington D.C.
• Save Minnesota Fundraising
• Local auctioneers make PERM events successful!
• TIGHTENED SLOTS: Should good fishing be a big problem?
• Should the DNR & White Earth Band make a harvest agreement?
• Other news from around the country

PERM Newsletter - Volume 6.4:

• 50 Years Past the Deadline. . . Why are Indian Tribes Still Suing over Ancient Treaties?
• From the Chairman
• More on the White Earth harvest agreement
• Mille Lacs and Fond du Lac status
• Save Minnesota Fundraising
• Local auctioneers make PERM events successful!
• Thanks to those who contributed through United Way

PERM Newsletter - Volume 7.1:

• PERM to fight for sportsmen in treaty fisheries management process!
• From the Chairman
• PERM board supports Mille Lacs County decision on reservation boundary
• Meeting with the governor about Mille Lacs
• Gillnet
• Local auctioneers make PERM events successful!
• Native Spun: Historical fictions get a hearing in the House of Representatives
• Summer raffle winners
• Other news from around the country
  

PERM Newsletter - Volume 7.2:

Sternberg’s “common sense” report. . .Questioning treaty management and calling for change

From the Chairman

Mille Lacs County files lawsuit over Reservation dispute

Local auctioneers make PERM events successful!

Mille Lacs Treaty Management Fact Sheet

PERM Newsletter - Volume 7.3:

• PERM & Tea Party to join forces on Mille Lacs Reservation boundary dispute
• Why the DNR is Wrong about Mille Lacs (PDF)
• Lawmakers hold
  hearing on Sternberg report
• PERM challenges effort to make tribal court judgements enforceable in State courts
  
• Response to petition for adoption of a rule of procedure for the recognition of tribal court orders and judgements
• PERM Events
• Raffle Winners

PERM Newsletter - Volume 7.4:

• The Band’s Motive: Surf or Turf?
• From the Chairman
• Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee’s Recommendation on Tribal Court Full Faith & Credit
• Cause for Concern about Mille Lacs Reservation
  
• PERM Events

PERM Newsletter - Volume 8.1:

• Letter to Ventura
• Executive Order 02-10
• Tribal Sovereignty Expansion Initiative
• Volunteers Needed
• PERM Events and Raffle
  
• News from the Mille Lacs County Tea Party
  
• Campaign against "Terminators in Black Robes"
• From the Chairman
  

PERM Newsletter - Volume 8.2:

Supreme Court Adopts PERM’s Argument on Tribal Court Judgements

Let's Do What's Best for the Fish

Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA) Fights Tribal Power Grab in Washington D.C.

PERM Changes Mille Lacs Fishing Management

If I Were a State or Tribal Leader

From the Chairman

Volunteers Needed

PERM Fundraising

Indianz.Com. In Print.

Tribes Praise Proposal to Overturn Court Ruling

S.578

2003 Annual Meeting

PERM Newsletter - Volume 8.3:

PERM Newsletter - Volume 9.3: