Issue 008 · June 28, 2026
A federal judge has continued the injunction blocking Lac du Flambeau from enforcing its fishing restrictions on the lakes that cross allotment-era roads at the center of the ongoing easement dispute. The ruling keeps the band's access-control strategy on hold while the broader road-dispute litigation works through the courts, and it sits in direct tension with the tribe's sovereign interest in managing its own lands. WPR's coverage, the Native source of record on this beat, is the right place to start.
Issue 007 · June 21, 2026
A federal court has continued its order blocking the Lac du Flambeau Band from enforcing fishing restrictions on nearly twenty lakes in ceded territory, extending a legal standoff that began when the band closed access over allotment-era road easements. The ruling keeps the treaty-rights and road-dispute threads tightly braided: the same land-access grievance that produced the road closures is now shaping how the band can exercise its own regulatory authority over the fishery. WPR's coverage is the source to follow here, and the note Patty flagged on the earlier ruling still applies: this belongs in the LdF section of the Ojibwe chapter, in direct conversation with the road dispute story.
Issue 002 · May 17, 2026
The Department of Justice filed a brief siding with the Town of Lac du Flambeau's demand that the tribe reimburse it for costs stemming from the 2023 road-closure dispute, a significant federal intervention against the Band's position. The move follows the 2023 easement standoff that drew national attention and complicates the tribe's ongoing legal posture. WPR, which has tracked this dispute from the beginning, has the story.
Issue 001 · May 10, 2026
The U.S. Attorney General filed a brief this week endorsing the position that the Lac du Flambeau Band should repay the town of Lac du Flambeau for costs incurred during the 2023 road access dispute, when the tribe closed roads crossing allotment-era easements. WPR has the story. The federal government's alignment with the town rather than the tribe in this brief is worth noting carefully: it continues a pattern in which the current administration reads allotment-era property arrangements in ways that constrain rather than support tribal sovereignty.