Race/Related: For Minneapolis’s Native Americans, a new fight echoes a bitter history
The crackdown on unauthorized immigrants is resonating deeply among the Dakota and other tribes.
Race/Related
January 30, 2026

Dakota tribal member Sophie Watso is one of dozens of American citizens federal agents have stopped, detained or violently confronted in Minneapolis in recent weeks. Native Americans are not a stated target of the crackdown, but they have been caught in the dragnet.

A woman in a cap beside a white vehicle.

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Read more about the Native Americans pushing back against ICE in Minneapolis. →

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