To give you an idea of where the Cranky Old White Guy caucus stands on the possibility of the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe building a massive casino/resort complex east of Moorhead, one citizen who spoke at the Clay County commission meeting Tuesday called the tribe a “foreign” nation.
It’d be hard to come up with a group of Americans who are more American (and therefore less foreign) than Native Americans, but this is where we are in 2025. Ignoramuses, in this case former Clay County Republican Party chairman Fred Wright, have no problem speaking up.
To their credit, the White Earth representatives who came to the meeting to make a short presentation about their broad vision for 280 acres the band purchased at the intersection of Interstate 94 and Highway 336 stayed reserved in the face of such witless comments.
