Has casino money improved lives on Minnesota’s Indian reservations?

MinnPost launched an investigative series this week exploring some big questions about the quality of life on Minnesota’s reservations.

What are tribes doing with gambling profits? Has casino money helped alleviate any of the persistent social problems on reservations? How have casinos changed the lives of those living on Minnesota’s reservations?

Waiting and wondering in Minnesota’s backlogged immigration court “In December 2009, Osman Samatar found a sign on the door of his recording studio in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. The message: Continue your work here and you’ll be killed. … Today Samatar is one of more than 2,500 people with an open case before Minnesota’s three federally appointed immigration judges.”
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Waiting and wondering in Minnesota’s backlogged immigration court

“In December 2009, Osman Samatar found a sign on the door of his recording studio in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. The message: Continue your work here and you’ll be killed. …

Today Samatar is one of more than 2,500 people with an open case before Minnesota’s three federally appointed immigration judges.”