Minnesota Chippewa Tribe

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The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe is a centralized government for six Chippewa (Ojibwe or sometimes Anishinaabe) bands in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It was created on June 18, 1934, and the organization and its constitution were recognized by the Secretary of the Interior two years later on July 24, 1936. Powers are divided between the state tribal organization and the individual Indian reservations. The bands that make up the tribe are:

• Bois Forte Band of Chippewa
• Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
• Grand Portage Band of Chippewa
• Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
• Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
• White Earth Band of Ojibwe

Notably, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa is not part of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

[edit] Services

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. The services are provided through their offices located in Cass Lake, Minnesota.

• Administration
  • Executive Direction
  • Tribal Operations
    • Enrollment
  • Accounting & Liquor Licenses
  • Human Resources
• Education
  • Scholarship Information
  • Johnson O’Malley
  • Indian Boarding Schools
• Finance Corporation
  • Home Loans
  • Business Loans
  • Homes for Sale
• Human Services
  • Senior Services
  • Investment, Employment and Welfare
  • Food Stamp Nutrition Education

[edit] External links

• Minnesota Chippewa Tribe

Native American Tribes officially recognized by the United States Minnesota Chippewa Tribe is one of the 562 Indian Tribal Entities within the contiguous 48 States recognized and eligible to receive services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs included in the latest list issued by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of Interior of the United States on April 4, 2008.