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North Dakota tribes push for more autonomy amid federal cuts

June 5, 2025

Alex Bertsch,

BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota tribal leaders highlighted uncertainty in federal funding, frustrations with the state Legislature and future economic development projects Wednesday during the state’s seventh annual Government-to-Government Conference. The annual event brings leaders of the five tribal nations that share geography with North Dakota together with state officials to share updates, network and discuss common…

North Dakota tribe goes back to its roots with a massive greenhouse operation

July 7, 2024

KVRR Staff,

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Native American tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully completed will be among the country’s largest, enabling the tribe to grow much of its own food decades after a federal dam flooded the land where they had cultivated corn, beans and other crops for millennia. Work…

Burgum signs oil tax-sharing bill with Three Affiliated Tribes

March 28, 2019

KVRR Staff,

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a bill that aims to end a longstanding disagreement over shared revenues on the oil-rich Fort Berthold Indian reservation. Burgum on Thursday signed legislation that ratifies the compact he signed last month with Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Mark Fox. The bill reworks a tax-sharing agreement that favors the Three…

Military Offers $5,000 Reward For Lost Ammunition Container Near Parshall

The Air Force says the ammunition is safe as long as the container is intact

May 15, 2018

TJ Nelson,

MINOT, N.D. — Airmen have called off the search for a missing container of ammunition lost on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. A Minot Air Force Base spokeswoman says personnel exhausted efforts to find the missing ammunition over the weekend. It fell of a vehicle on May 1 near Parshall. The Air Force says the ammunition is safe as long…

Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Named To EPA Board

Mark Fox Has Been Chairman Since 2014

May 13, 2018

TJ Nelson,

The tribal chairman of the oil-rich Three Affiliated Tribes in western North Dakota has been named to an Environmental Protection Agency advisory committee. The EPA announced Chairman Mark Fox’s appointment on Friday. The EPA says the 34-member board helps the agency develop partnerships with local governments to provide improvements to public health and environmental protection. About 20 percent of the…