ICE custody at Fort Snelling renews Indigenous sovereignty concerns

Three enrolled Oglala Sioux Tribe members detained by ICE in Minneapolis were transferred to Fort Snelling, a site with painful history of Dakota internment, prompting tribal leaders to call the detentions illegal and press for their release while questioning the legal basis. Advocates say the case reflects a broader pattern of ICE policies that fail to recognize tribal citizenship and sovereignty, linking contemporary detentions to historic Indigenous displacement and colonization.