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The White Earth Reservation was created on March 19, 1867, by a treaty (16 Stat. 719) signed in Washington, D.C. Ten Ojibwe Indian chiefs met with President Andrew Johnson at the White House to negotiate the treaty.
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 .
Gerald Robert Vizenor (born 1934) is an American writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation.Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Director of Native American Studies.
Erma Jean Vizenor is an Ojibwe politician and educator. She served as the tribal chair of the White Earth Nation from 2004 to 2016. Under her leadership, White Earth adopted a new tribal constitution. She served as an educator in the White Earth Indian Reservation for 20 years. Vizenor was president of Leech Lake Tribal College in 2016.
A descendant of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation, she was 6 years old when her likeness was captured for the exhibit that opened to the public in 1993.
The Ojibwe (/ o ʊ ˈ dʒ ɪ b w eɪ / ⓘ ... "One Called From A Distance" (Midwewinind) of the White Earth Band, 1894. Pee-Che-Kir, Ojibwe chief, painted by Thomas ...
Oct. 24—BEMIDJI — The White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe announced on Friday, Oct. 21, that it will soon close its purchase of Ridgeway Courts I and II in Bemidji, with the ...
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.