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Belcourt is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rolette County, North Dakota, United States. It is within the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. The population was 1,510 at the 2020 census. [4] The community is the seat of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
Location of the main reservation Map of the Turtle Mountain reservation and trust lands.. The main reservation is located in Rolette County, North Dakota. [2] The reservation is six by twelve miles (9.7 km × 19.3 km), and it has one of the highest population densities of any reservation in the United States. [2]
The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians (Ojibwe language: Mikinaakwajiw-ininiwag) is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Ojibwe based on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota. The tribe has 30,000 enrolled members. A population of 5,815 reside on the main reservation and another 2,516 reside on off ...
A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the ... Spirit Lake Reservation: North Dakota: 4,238: 389.63 (1,009. ...
The Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation is in the northeast section of Rolette County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 939.499 square miles (2,433.29 km 2 ), of which 903.042 square miles (2,338.87 km 2 ) is land and 36.457 square miles (94.42 km 2 ) (3.9%) is water.
The tribal headquarters is in New Town, the 18th largest city in North Dakota. Created in 1870, the reservation is a small part of the lands originally reserved to the tribes by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, which allocated nearly 12 million acres (49,000 km 2) in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming. [3] [4]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Indian reservations in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Pages in category "American Indian reservations in North Dakota"
The federally recognized Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota has a reservation in north-central North Dakota along the US-Canada border, in the Turtle Mountains where the Chippewa had long lived, along with off-Reservation trust parcels across western North Dakota, eastern Montana and northern South Dakota, making the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation one of the most ...