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Decades after taking it, feds set to return Minnesota land to Leech Lake band
For decades, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe pressed the federal government to give back tracts of northern Minnesota land it wrongfully took from the tribe in the 1940s and 1950s. Now, Washington is close to returning nearly 12,000 acres. The roots of the dispute reach back to 1948, when...