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Chippewa Cree, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Métis. 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 ...
Kade Ferris (1969–2023), Turtle Mountain tribal historic preservation officer; Leonard Peltier, a leader of the American Indian Movement, grew up here. [10] Louise Erdrich, writer, grew up on Turtle Mountain Reservation, and is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. [citation needed]
In the 1892 McCumber Agreement between the Turtle Mountain Indians and the Commission, the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation was established, but many of the Little Shell Band of Chippewa Indians refused settlement there. Some Little Shell members did eventually settle on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation.
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 ...
Karen Louise Erdrich (/ ˈɜːrdrɪk / ER-drik; [2] born June 7, 1954) [3] is a Native American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people. [4][1]
Turtle Mountain Chippewa reserve, 1882 and 1884. Section of map 2. The areas combined indicates a reserve for the Chippewa (Turtle Mountain band) established on December 21, 1882 by executive order. [1]: 908–909 Two years later the major part of it was relinquished by executive order of March 29, 1884.
Chief Rocky Boy, or Asiniweyin (as his name appears on the 1908 Chippewa Census, <United States Department of Interior>), member of the Red Robe Band noted in the 1864 Pembina Chippewa Treaty, signor of the 1889 Red Lake Agreement #6, assisted in the creation of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation.
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (December 14, 1863 – May 17, 1952), was a Métis Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians attorney, Native American rights activist, and suffragist. In 1914, Baldwin was the first Native American student to graduate from the Washington College of Law. She worked in the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, [1 ...