Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians

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The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians is a segment of the Chippewa tribe based on the Turtle Mountain 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-reservation trust land (as of the 2000 census). The tribal offices are located in Belcourt, North Dakota. The current Tribal Chairman is David "Doc" Brien, who began his duties as chairman in January of 2007.

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The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians is one of the successors of the Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians.

There is some controversy over whether the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians includes the Little Shell Band of Chippewa Indians or not. Several court cases have decided that they are indeed separate tribes,and have in fact recognized at least 3 tribal units, and several unassociated members of that band. (See: FindLaw This case gives reference to Indian Claims Commission and United States Court of Claims cases that cannot be found online from their original sources, as the cases are old. *Note1)

In the history of the Pembina there have been several splits, the hereditary Chief of the Little Shell was in fact ‘removed’ from the tribal rolls of the Turtle Mountain Band (and reservation) in the 1890s Quoting Koke v Little Shell *Note 2 (Montana Supreme Court) and United States Department of the Interior proposed finding for Federal Acknowledgement of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana (Federal Register V65 #141 July 21, 2000):

"A group who were disenrolled from the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota in the 1890s were led into Montana at that time by Chief Thomas Little Shell (Ayabrwaywetung)"

[edit] Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation

The main reservation lies in the northern part of Rolette County, North Dakota and has a land area of 175.039 km² (67.583 sq mi) and a 2000 census population of 5,815 persons. However, there are very extensive off-reservation trust lands that make the reservation's lands the most widely dispersed of all reservations in the nation. These lands are spread across 22 counties in three states: North Dakota, Montana, and South Dakota. Including these lands the reservation's land area rises more than three-fold to 603.560 km² (233.036 sq mi). Its total resident population at the 2000 census was 8,331. Rolette County itself has the largest portion of off-reservation trust land, but there are significant parcels in Phillips, Blaine, Sheridan, and Roosevelt Counties in Montana, and in Williams County, North Dakota. Sixteen other counties have lesser amounts of land.

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Pembina Chippewa
Full political Successors
Chippewa Cree | Little Shell | Turtle Mountain
Minor political Successors
Red Lake | White Earth
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[edit] Notes

1 A internet search for either: Turtle Mt. Band of Chippewa Indians 203 Ct. Cl. 426 (1974) or Turtle mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Et Al v United States 490 F.2d 935 (1974) will find off site sources for this information. Also the findings of the Indians Claim Commission: 23 Ind. Cl. Comm 315 (1970), 25 Ind. Cl Comm. 179 (1971), 26 Ind. Cl. Comm. 336 (1971)

2 The Montana Supreme Court has taken down their online opinions for some form of change and has no date for the return of online cases, FindLaw does not have the opinion online.

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