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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.
Anchorage Native News (community education publication produced by Southcentral Foundation of Alaska) [10] Anishinabek News (monthly community newspaper is produced by the Communications Unit of the Anishinabek Nation at the head office in Nipissing First Nation) [11] Anishinaabeg Today (White Earth Nation) [12]
The news of Shaw-Bosh-Kung's passing in 1890 made the newspapers across the state. [15] [16] A few months later papers across the country and overseas remembered his wit, wisdom, and leadership. [17] [18] When Chief Mou-Zoo-Mau-Nee passed in 1897, the state legislature attempted to give his widow a pension, but it failed. [19]
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 ...
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. According to the 2010 US Census, the Leech Lake Band had 10,660 residents living on its reservation, the most of any single reservation in the state.
She introduces herself as the daughter of an enrolled White Earth Nation citizen. “Native people understand the need for specificity,” she said. Noodin bolstered Indigenous studies program at ...
In 1898 Chief Bugonaygeshig became widely known among the Chippewas of Minnesota. Many Chippewas had already been relocated to the White Earth Reservation by 1898. The Leech Lake Reservation and all other Minnesota Chippewa Reservations, except Red Lake and White Earth, had been abolished. However, many Chippewas continued to live on their ...
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 ...