Indigenous Woman Charged in Federal Court for Allegedly Punching Law Enforcement Officer, Remains in Custody

An Indigenous woman and community organizer remains in federal custody after being indicted on charges of assaulting federal officers during what witnesses described as a chaotic and traumatic federal raid that included ICE in South Minneapolis last week. Her arrest stems from an encounter between community members and law enforcement last week where people immediately began protesting a large law enforcement presence in a predominantly Latino neighborhood. She was arrested yesterday by FBI agents after giving an interview about a video she posted on Instagram that shows her getting slammed to the ground by law enforcement officers on June 3.

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Afro-Indigenous Man to Receive Nearly $7 Million for Wrongful Conviction in City of Milwaukee

An Afro-Indigenous man was recently awarded nearly $7 million from the Milwaukee Common Council on May 13, 2025 stemming from a federal lawsuit alleging that the city violated his constitutional rights. Danny Wilber, an enrolled Oneida Nation of Wisconsin citizen, spent nearly 18 years in the Wisconsin prison system, before he was released from prison as a result of a habeas corpus petition that had multiple claims that he was prejudiced against, a practice his attorney at the People’s Law Office in Chicago, said is longstanding and must be changed.

Another Inmate Death at Federally Operated Detention Center in Red Lake

The recent death of an inmate at a Bureau of Indian Affairs regulated jail in northern Minnesota is one of several in the last several years. The troubled detention center on the Red Lake Indian Reservation has had several deaths in the last several years and is currently in court for negligence and violating an inmate’s civil rights.

Turtle Mountain Chippewa Celebrates Leonard Peltier’s Return Home After 49 Years in Federal Prison

Last week, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians hosted a welcome home celebration for Leonard Peltier, 80, who spent 49 years in maximum security federal prison for the convictions of a two FBI agents were fatally shot in the summer of 1975. His release is a result of a commutation signed by former President Joseph Biden in his last hour of his presidency on January 20, 2025, where Peltier will serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement. Peltier, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa citizen and an American Indian Movement activist, was arrested in Canada, in February 1976, and extradited to the U.S. from a shooting incident on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that left FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams dead on June 26, 1975. On June 1, 1977, Peltier was convicted for two counts of first-degree murder of the FBI agents and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.

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