(June 4, 2020, 7:49 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on May 26 sent a memorandum to officials in the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and in the DOI’s Office of Land and Minerals Management announcing his conclusion that the state of North Dakota is the legal owner of the mineral rights in submerged lands beneath the Missouri River where it flows through a Native American reservation....