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The White Earth Reservation owns and operates an Event Center, a hotel, the Shooting Star Casino, the White Earth Housing Authority, the Reservations College, and other business enterprises. The poverty rate on the White Earth Reservation may be nearly fifty percent. The unemployment rate on the White Earth Reservation is almost twenty-five ...
The White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, [1] also called the White Earth Nation (Ojibwe: Gaa-waabaabiganikaag Anishinaabeg, lit. "People from where there is an abundance of white clay"), is a federally recognized Native American band in northwestern Minnesota. The band's land base is the White Earth Indian Reservation.
The White Earth Boarding School was a Native American boarding institution located on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota.Established in 1871, it was the first of 16 such schools in the state, aiming to assimilate White Earth Nation children into Euro-American culture by eradicating their Indigenous identities, languages, and traditions.
White Earth is a census-designated place (CDP) in Becker County, Minnesota, United States.The population was 580 at the 2010 census. [4]White Earth was named after the White Earth Indian Reservation, and that took its name from the White Earth Lake.
Mahnomen County (/ m ə ˈ n oʊ m ən / mə-NOH-mən) is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,411. [1] Its county seat is Mahnomen. [2]The county is part of the White Earth Indian Reservation. [3]
The White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP) is a nonprofit, grassroots organization that seeks to recover land for the Anishinaabeg people on the White Earth Indian Reservation in western Minnesota and develop programs to achieve sustainability and environmental preservation.
Clyde Bellecourt was the seventh of twelve children born to his parents, Charles and Angeline, on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Among his older siblings was brother Vernon Bellecourt. [5] The reservation was impoverished and his home had no running water or electricity. [3]
Vernon Bellecourt (WaBun-Inini) (October 17, 1931 – October 13, 2007) [1] was a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe (located in Minnesota), a Native American rights activist, and a leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM). [2] In the Ojibwe language, his name meant "Man of Dawn." [1]