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• The federal government primarily handles sexual assault, homicide, illegal weapons and drug cases on tribal lands, which include primarily the Spirit Lake, Fort Berthold, Turtle Mountain and Standing Rock reservations in North Dakota. Standing Rock straddles both North and South Dakota.
• Purdon said Department of Justice statistics show that cases prosecuted on those reservations increased 84 percent from fiscal year 2009 to fiscal year 2012. Cases highlighted in the report include two wide-scale drug trafficking indictments; one dubbed Operation Prairie Thunder, on the Standing Rock Reservation, the

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