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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 ...
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.
As a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, which also includes the bands of Bois Forte, Fond du Lac, Grand Portage, Mille Lacs, and White Earth, the Leech Lake Band is governed by a tribal constitution, written following the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. The tribe's constitution established a corporate system of governance with "reservation ...
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.
White Earth is a census-designated place (CDP) in Becker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 580 at the 2010 census. [4] White Earth was named after the White Earth Indian Reservation, and that took its name from the White Earth Lake. [5]
White Earth Indian Reservation; White Earth Land Recovery Project This page was last edited on 9 August 2023, at 04:14 (UTC). Text is ...
The Leech Lake Reservation has a significant non-native population due in part to the allotment and sale of reservation lands in the late nineteenth century. In 2020, the racial makeup of the reservation was 49.3% White, 43.8% Native American, 0.1% Black or African American, 0.1% Asian, 0.4% from other races, and 6.3%
The Seventh Fire is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Jack Pettibone Riccobono. The film was presented by executive producer Terrence Malick. [1] The film follows Rob Brown, a Native American gang leader, and his 17-year old protege, Kevin Fineday Jr., on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota.