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The Bois Forte Band are named after their location of thick conifer forest of northern Minnesota. Handbook of North American Indians record other variations of their names. [2] Boise Forte — Indian Affairs Report, 332, 1873. Bois Forts — Warren (1852) in Minnesota Historical Society Collections, V, 85, 1885.
In 2022, the Conservation Fund returned 28,089 acres (43.889 sq mi; 113.67 km 2) of forest land at Nett Lake to the Bois Forte Band. [3] 50% of the reservation is wetland, and the 7,300 acre (30 km 2) Nett Lake is said to be the largest producer of wild rice in the United States.
There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations.
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa; Bois Forte Indian Reservation; D. Dakota people; F. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe; ... Mississippi River Band of Chippewa Indians; O ...
The Battle of the Brule was an October 1842 battle between the La Pointe Band of Ojibwe Indians and a war party of Dakota Indians. The battle took place along the Brule River (Bois Brûlé) in what is today northern Wisconsin and resulted in a decisive victory for the Ojibwe.
Nov. 15—BELCOURT, N.D. — The story of a young boy in need of a new heart inspired historic change within the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. Recently, the Native American tribe in ...
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 Minnesota Chippewa Tribe is the centralized governmental authority for six Ojibwe bands in Minnesota. The tribe was created on June 18, 1934; the organization and its governmental powers are divided between the tribe, and the individual bands, which directly operate their reservations .