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Fort Totten State Historic Site is a historic fort that sits on the shores of Devils Lake near Fort Totten, North Dakota. During its 13 years of operation as a fort, Fort Totten was used during the American Indian Wars to enforce the peace among local Native American tribes and to protect transportation routes.
Fort Totten is a census-designated place (CDP) in Benson County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 1,243 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] Fort Totten is located within the Spirit Lake Reservation and is the site of tribal headquarters.
The General Store and Post Office in Saint Michael, ND School children enjoying wagonride at Fort Totten, late 19th or early 20th century. Fort Totten is the reservation's economic and government center. The tribal administration, tribal college and Spirit Lake Consulting offices are located in the community. The tribe's Vocational ...
In June 1884, an agreement had set aside a reservation 12 miles by 6 miles which was being occupied by the Turtle Mountain Band, but by 1891, again the US wanted a land cession. [8] In 1891, Agent Waugh of Fort Totten, convened a committee of 16 full bloods and 16 mixed bloods to take a census of the Chippewa and set boundaries for a new ...
Fort Totten is a former active United States Army installation in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located on the north shore of Long Island . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Fort Totten is at the head of Little Neck Bay , where the East River widens to become Long Island Sound . [ 5 ]
Fort Totten may refer to: Fort Totten (Queens), a Civil War–era military installation in New York City; Fort Totten, North Dakota. Fort Totten State Historic Site, a Dakota frontier-era fort and Native American boarding school; Fort Totten (Washington, D.C.), a neighborhood in north east Washington, D.C. Fort Totten (WMATA station), a Metro ...
An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S. state government in which it is located.
In 1885, it was originally named Fort Totten by the Northern Pacific Railroad, before becoming Totten in 1887 and then Lallie in 1889, taking the sister of Superintendent A.J. McCabe as its namesake. References