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Bois Forte Heritage Center & Cultural Museum in Tower, MN. The Bois Forte Band is an amalgamation of three separate groups, of which the Zagwaandagaawininiwag was the largest component, also known on some documents as Zoongaatigwitoonag ("Strong-wooded Ones", reflected in French as "Les Songatikitons ").
Location of Bois Forte Indian Reservation The reservation is composed of three sections in northern Minnesota , United States: The Nett Lake Indian Reservation ( Ojibwe : Asabiikone-zaaga`iganiing , "At the Lake for Netting"), located at 48°05′31″N 93°11′12″W / 48.09194°N 93.18667°W / 48.09194; -93.18667 , is the primary ...
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 ...
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa; Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; Grand Portage Band of Chippewa; Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe; Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe; White Earth Band of Ojibwe; As of July 2003, the six bands have 40,677 enrolled members. The White Earth Band is the largest, which had more than 19,000 members.
The 1854 Treaty Authority is an inter-tribal natural resource management organization committed to protecting and implementing the off-reservation hunting, fishing, and gathering rights for the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa and the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa in the lands ceded to the United States government under the Treaty of La Pointe.
The Bois Forte Ojibwe once occupied the area from the 1760s through the 1930s. They lived in the area of the park until the Nett Lake reservation was established. Five bands lived throughout the park, including the west end of Kabetogama Lake, Kettle Falls, Black Bay on Rainy Lake, Crane Lake, and Moose River of Namakan Lake.
Bois Forte, Muskrat Portage, Red Lake; Pembina and; La Pointe bands. These villages had been politically independent and did not have a centralized tribal authority. In the winter of 1851, President Zachary Taylor ordered the removal of the Lake Superior Chippewa to west of the Mississippi River, as had already been forced on most other tribes ...
An act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota (51st-1st-Ex.Doc.247; 25 Stat. 642), commonly known as the Nelson Act of 1889, was a United States federal law intended to relocate all the Anishinaabe people in Minnesota to the White Earth Indian Reservation in the western part of the state, and expropriate the vacated reservations for sale to European ...