Tribe bans candidate over vacated felony conviction

By: Mike Mosedale

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: March 6, 2026

Words: 516

Last Updated: 4 days, 4 hours ago

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A tribal court has banned a longtime elected official of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe from running for office because of a past felony conviction that was later overturned.

Last month, four of five judges serving on the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe’s Election Appeals Court voted to decertify Arthur “Archie” LaRose as a candidate for secretary-treasurer, the second most powerful elected office on the north central Minnesota reservation.

The decision came in the wake …

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