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Chippewa Cree, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Métis. The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians ( Ojibwe language: Mikinaakwajiw-ininiwag) is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Ojibwe based on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota. The tribe has 30,000 enrolled members.
Turtle Mountain, or the Turtle Mountains, is an area in central North America, in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of North Dakota and southwestern portion of the Canadian province of Manitoba, approximately 62 miles (100 km) south of the city of Brandon on Manitoba Highway 10 / U.S. Route 281. It is a plateau 2,000 ft (600 m) above ...
Indian termination policy. Indian termination is a phrase describing United States policies relating to Native Americans from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s. [1] It was shaped by a series of laws and practices with the intent of assimilating Native Americans into mainstream American society. Cultural assimilation of Native Americans was not new ...
Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation ( Ojibwe language: Mikinaakwajiwing) is a reservation located in northern North Dakota, United States. [1] It is the land base for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. [1] The population of the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation consists of Plains Ojibwe (also known in the US as Chippewa) and Métis ...
Illinois. In 2024, the Prairie Band Potawatomi (long based in Kansas) also became the first and only recognized tribal nation in Illinois, since Native Americans were dispossessed in the 19th century. The United States Department of the Interior formally placed 130 acres of land in DeKalb County into trust for the benefit of the tribal band ...
The federally recognized Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota has a reservation in north-central North Dakota along the US-Canada border, in the Turtle Mountains where the Chippewa had long lived, along with off-Reservation trust parcels across western North Dakota, eastern Montana and northern South Dakota, making the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation one of the most ...
Named for its 19th-century leader, Esens, known as "Little Shell". It was formerly known as the Little Shell Band of Landless Chippewa Indians of Montana because the Little Shell went without an Indian reservation, having conflicts with federal authorities dating back to the 19th century. Though considered "landless", the tribe was state ...
Heid Ellen Erdrich was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, and was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota. [1] She comes from a family of seven siblings including sisters Louise Erdrich (well-known contemporary Native writer of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction) and Lise Erdrich (also a published writer). Their father Ralph (German-American) and mother ...