( December 4, 2024, 10:34 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The state of North Dakota has filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia arguing that there is “no clear evidence” of congressional intent to confer Native American tribes with ownership of the disputed Missouri Riverbed and underlying mineral interests, and it says the lack of evidence “becomes even more clear when the relevant treaties, documents, and relationships are understood in their historical context.”...