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G Company of the 9th Minnesota Infantry Regiment [4] had a large component of bi-racial White Earth Chippewa. [5] Their military service was the result of underhand tactics, Chippewa historians Julia Spears and William Warren report: A group of white citizens of Crow Wing enrolled bi-racial Chippewa as substitutes to fight in their place, as allowed by the Enrollment Act, thus avoiding being ...
In March 1880, Enmegahbowh and Chief Fine-Day traveled across the eastern United States for three months in order to raise money for a new St. Columba Episcopal Church at White Earth. While in Ohio, they impressed the governor, and also addressed the Ohio state legislature, raising $6000 for their project.
Under Vizenor, White Earth was at the heart of a nationwide movement to rewrite tribal constitutions. [16] In 2013, nearly 80% of White Earth voted to adopt the new constitution. [17] Vizenor also called for the amendment of the constitution of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, starting as early as 2008. [18]
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]
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.
Through additional treaties with the United States, the Leech Lake and Lake Winnibigoshish reservations were nearly doubled in size in the late nineteenth century. When the White Earth Reservation was created in 1867, the western Pillagers living about Otter Tail Lake agreed to relocate to that reservation so they would no longer be landless.
Warren K. Moorehead was born Warren King Moorehead on March 10th, 1866 in Siena, Italy.His parents, Helen King and Dr. William G. Moorehead, were missionaries. [1] His mother died when he was quite young, and while his father remarried and became head of a Presbyterian seminary in Xenia, Ohio, [1] his travels for keeping that institution open left young Warren and his sister in the care of two ...
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]