is owned by the tribe but operating independently of it. Those in attendance were discussing the tribe’s plan to take over the hospital in Winnebago. Tuesday.Īt the same time the federal agents were at the headquarters building in Winnebago, the Winnebago Tribal Council was in a special prenegotiation meeting in Sloan, Iowa, with the federal Indian Health Service.
ATF agents appeared to be leaving the cigarette distribution center shortly before 5 p.m. Six semitrailer trucks were backed up to the loading dock of the distribution center, the witness said. Their 20 vehicles were from Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota and Kansas. A person who was at the headquarters Tuesday said that about 8 a.m., more than 50 federal agents were outside Ho-Chunk’s distribution center.
