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• Resolution Adopted at Koochiching County and 8th Congressional District Republican Party Conventions (May 6, 2006)
• Resolution: Restoring Minnesota's Sovereignty Over State-Owned Waters
• Arrowhead Counties Association
  Resolution No. 99-01
• In the Supreme Court of the United States, Carl E. Brown, Petitioner V. United States, Respondent;Brief for the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin as Amici Curiae in support of Petition for Writ of Certiorari (October Terms 1976)
   
• Letter to the Director of the Office of Indian Resource Policy, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources from the Director General of the Bureau of Legal Affairs, Department of External Affairs, Canada; Re: Lac La Croix Indian Band; Dated: October 13, 1983
   
• In the Supreme Court of the United States, Harold M. Armstrong and Carl E. Brown, Petitioners V. United States of America, Respondent (Summary of Key Positions)
   
• In the Supreme Court of the United States, United States of America, Respondent, v. Harold M. Armstrong and Carl E. Brown, Petitioners; Petition for Writ of Certiorari (Dec. 8, 1999)
   
• In the Supreme Court of the United States, United States of America, Respondent, v. Harold M. Armstrong and Carl E. Brown, Petitioners; on Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; Motion and Brief of Amici Curiae of Arrowhead Counties Association and Koochiching County (Jan. 6, 2000)
   
• Bill passed by U.S. Congress creating Voyageurs National Park. This bill required Minnesota to cede state-owned land and not state-owned waters to the federal government.
   
• Bill passed by Minnesota state legislature creating Voyageurs National Park. This bill ceded state-owned land and not state-owned waters to the federal government.
   
• Subsequent bill passes by the Minnesota state legislature confirmed that the state never ceded state-owned waters to the federal government.
   
• Resolution passed by Rainy Lake Sports Fishing Club
   
• Resolution passed by International Voyageurs Snowmobile Club
   
• Resolution passed by Ranier City Council