Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation
- Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation
Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation is an Indian Reservation located primarily in northern North Dakota. It is the land-base for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
Reservation
The Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation was established by Presidential Executive Order on December 21, 1882. 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.
Communities
*Belcourt, North Dakota
*East Dunseith, North Dakota
*St. John, North Dakota (part, population 7)
*Shell Valley, North Dakota (most, population 395)
Notable residents
*Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement leader, grew up here.
References
* [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-context=dt&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-CHECK_SEARCH_RESULTS=N&-CONTEXT=dt&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_P001&-tree_id=4001&-transpose=N&-all_geo_types=N&-redoLog=true&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=25000US4345&-geo_id=NBSP&-search_results=25000US4345&-format=&-fully_or_partially=N&-_lang=en&-show_geoid=Y Turtle Mountain Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land, Montana/North Dakota/South Dakota] United States Census Bureau
External links
* [http://www.tmbci.net Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians official site]
* [http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/govdocs/text/chippewa.html copies of reservation-pertinent documents]
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