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The Red River is a major river in the Southern United States. [3] It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. [4] It also is known as the Red River of the South to distinguish it from the Red River of the North, which flows between Minnesota and North Dakota into the Canadian province of Manitoba.
The Red Lake Indian Reservation (Ojibwe: Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'iganing) covers 1,260.3 sq mi (3,264 km 2; 806,600 acres) [2] in parts of nine counties in Minnesota, United States. It is made up of numerous holdings but the largest section is an area around Red Lake , in north-central Minnesota, the largest lake in the state.
The Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians (Ojibwe: Aniibiminani-ziibiwininiwag) is a historical band of Chippewa (Ojibwe), originally living along the Red River of the North and its tributaries. Through the treaty process with the United States, the Pembina Band was settled on reservations in Minnesota and North Dakota. Some tribal members refusing ...
Map of states with US federally recognized tribes marked in yellow. States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1]
Reservation name Tribe Counties Map Population [Note 1] Notes Bois Forte Indian Reservation: Ojibwe: Itasca, Koochiching, and St. Louis: 984 Fond du Lac Indian Reservation: Ojibwe: Carlton and St. Louis: 4,184 Owns off-reservation trust land in Douglas County, Wisconsin. Grand Portage Indian Reservation: Ojibwe: Cook: 618 Leech Lake Indian ...
The Indian traditions have it that the Raft originally reached as low down as the Falls at Alexandria." [6] The raft raised the banks of the river, creating bayous and several lakes. Called the Great Raft Lakes, these included Caddo and Cross Lakes, along the lower reaches of the Red River's tributaries. [4]
A Century of Citizenship. Rhyia Joyheart, 26, is no stranger to the day-to-day grind of 21st-century life, such as rising rent, high grocery bills, and long hours spent in city traffic.
The Shawnee Tribe is an Eastern Woodland tribe. They originally came from Ohio and Pennsylvania, and were the last of the Shawnee to leave their traditional homelands there. [ 6 ] In the late 18th century, European American encroachment crowded Shawnee lands in the East, and one band migrated to Missouri — eventually becoming the Absentee ...