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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.
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]
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.
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 ...
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An enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe, Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which began in the 1960s as a local organization in Minneapolis that grappled with ...
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 ...