Minnesota Chippewa Tribe
Overview
Government
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for six Chippewa (Ojibwe or Anishinaabe
Anishinaabe
Anishinaabe or Anishinabe—or more properly Anishinaabeg or Anishinabek, which is the plural form of the word—is the autonym often used by the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Algonquin peoples. They all speak closely related Anishinaabemowin/Anishinaabe languages, of the Algonquian language family.The meaning...
) bands in the U.S. state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
of Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. It was created on June 18, 1934, and the organization and its constitution
Constitution
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were recognized by the Secretary of the Interior
United States Secretary of the Interior
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two years later on July 24, 1936. Powers are divided between the state tribal organization and the individual Indian reservation
Indian reservation
An American Indian reservation is an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs...
s. The bands that make up the tribe are:
- Bois Forte Band of ChippewaBois Forte Band of ChippewaBois Forte Band of Chippewa are an Ojibwe Band located in northern Minnesota, along the border between the United States and Canada...
- Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior ChippewaFond du Lac Band of Lake Superior ChippewaFond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is an Anishinaabe band located near Cloquet, Minnesota. Their land-base is the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation , located mainly in Carlton and St...
- Grand Portage Band of Chippewa
- Leech Lake Band of OjibweLeech Lake Band of OjibweThe Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, also known as the Leech Lake Band of Chippewa Indians or the Leech Lake Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, and as Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag Ojibweg in the Ojibwe language, is an Ojibwa tribe located in Minnesota. The tribe boasts 8,861 tribal members as of July, 2007...
- Mille Lacs Band of OjibweMille Lacs Band of OjibweThe Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe , also known as the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians or the Mille Lacs Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, is an Ojibwa tribe located in Minnesota. The tribe boasts 3,942 tribal members as of July, 2007...
- White Earth Band of OjibweWhite Earth Band of OjibweThe White Earth Band of Ojibwe, or Gaa-waabaabiganikaag Anishinaabeg, is a Native American tribe located in northwestern Minnesota. The tribe's land-based home is the White Earth Indian Reservation...
Notably, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa is not part of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.
The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe provides basic services to each of its six member Band, unless the individual Band have signed a compact to provide these services themselves.
