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Last November, leaders of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Spirit Lake Nation wrote a letter to the governor asking state legislators to reconsider a proposal for a new North Dakota legislative map days before the bill was to be introduced into the state house. They argued that the map did not allow for indigenous people’s voices to be heard, but the map still passed a Republican-majority legislature and Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed the bill into law. Now, two Republicans, District 4 chairman Chuck Walen and Paul Henderson, who is considering running for a chair in District 9, ha…