2 Native American-owned corporations cancel contracts with #ICE

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation chairman calls reservations the 'first attempts at detention centres'

Candace Maracle · CBC News · Posted: Jan 12, 2026

Excerpt: "Last week, a second #NativeAmerican-owned corporation announced it was severing a multi-million dollar contract with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after community pressure.

"A subsidiary of Oneida ESC Group, a corporation owned by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, cancelled a US $3.8 million contract with ICE for engineering and inspection of federal facilities after the Oneida government became aware of and condemned the contract. The Oneida government also replaced the subsidiary's board of managers.

"#OneidaNation of #Wisconsin’s Chairman Tahassi Hill, in an email to #CBCIndigenous, wrote that every nation should have the power to determine its own vision and values.

'When issues arise that conflict with our laws, policies and core values, we must remain steadfast in acting immediately,' the statement said.

"Last month, #PrairieBand #PotawatomiNation in #Kansas announced it had cancelled a US $29.9 million contract for planning, research and concept designs for secure structures that its corporation had with ICE, and had fired senior members of the corporation's leadership.

" 'We know our Indian reservations were the government’s first attempts at detention centres. We were placed here because we were treated as prisoners of war,' said Prairie Band Tribal Chairman Joseph 'Zeke' Rupnick, in a statement on YouTube.

" 'We must ask ourselves why we would ever participate in something that mirrors the harm and trauma once done to our people.' "

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