(6 Aug 2025)
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Belcourt, North Dakota – 23 July 2025
1. Sign reading: (English) “Welcome to Turtle Mountain Reservation”
2. Turtle Mountain Band signage
3. Teepee on Turtle Mountain reservation
4. Tribe members gathered
5. Jamie Azure standing with Tribe member holding baby
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie Azure, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Chairman:
“If I had to describe the Turtle Mountain Tribe, I would say one big community, one big family.”
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Dunseith, North Dakota – 24 July 2025
7. Turtle sculpture
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Belcourt, North Dakota – 23 July 2025
8. Wide of playground
9. Wide of lake
10. Wide of field
11. District map
12. SOUNDBITE (English) State Rep. Jayme Davis, (D) North Dakota:
“I think our values, being in those rooms, at those tables, has had a huge impact.”
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Washington – 14 June 2024
13. Wide exterior of the US Supreme Court
14. Pan of exterior of the US Supreme Court
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Belcourt, North Dakota – 23 July 2025
15. Wide of street
16. Wide of tribe members gathered
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) State Rep. Jayme Davis, (D) North Dakota:
“If it, you know, passes, as we hope it will, it’s going to impact every single person, native or not. And so if you take the politics away, you take race away, you take all of that away, what’s left is the impact that we as individuals get to hold our government accountable.”
18. Bison gathered in field
19. Flags waving from poles
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20. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie Azure, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Chairman:
“I hope that everything is looked at. Like I’ve said before, I love this country, I love the rules that are set in place by this country, we all live by them, and we’re just asking for fair representation underneath the rules that everybody follows.”
STORYLINE:
THE RESERVATION OF THE TURTLE MOUNTAIN BAND OF THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS IS BASED IN BELCOURT, NORTH DAKOTA, ABOUT 10 MILES FROM THE CANADIAN BORDER.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie Azure, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Chairman:
“If I had to describe the Turtle Mountain Tribe, I would say one big community, one big family.”
IN 2024 THE TURTLE MOUNTAIN BAND, ALONG WITH THE SPIRIT LAKE TRIBE, FORMED A JOINT STATE DISTRICT FOR THE FIRST TIME.
IT WAS THE RESULT OF A LAWSUIT FILED BY THE TRIBES ARGUING THAT THEY HAD NOT HAD THE FULL RIGHTS TO CHOOSE CANDIDATES BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE LINES WERE DRAWN.
A FEDERAL JUDGE AGREED AND PUT A NEW MAP IN PLACE.
SOUNDBITE (English) State Rep. Jayme Davis, (D) North Dakota:
“I think our values, being in those rooms, at those tables, has had a huge impact.”
NOW THE FUTURE OF THE DISTRICT IS IN THE HANDS OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AFTER AN APPEALS COURT OVERTURNED THAT DECISION.
THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS STAYED THAT RULING, PUTTING ON HOLD THE APPEALS COURT DECISION, WHILE IT DECIDES WHETHER IT WILL TAKE THE CASE.
BUT THERE ARE WIDE IMPLICATIONS, BECAUSE THE QUESTION IS WHETHER INDIVIDUAL ENTITIES, LIKE THE TRIBES OR THE NAACP OR THE ACLU CAN BRING SUCH CHALLENGES.
SOUNDBITE (English) State Rep. Jayme Davis, (D) North Dakota:
“If it, you know, passes, as we hope it will, it’s going to impact every single person, native or not. And so if you take the politics away, you take race away, you take all of that away, what’s left is the impact that we as individuals get to hold our government accountable.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie Azure, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Chairman:
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