White Earth Indian Reservation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

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00:09:36 2 Communities
00:12:42 3 Demographics
00:14:22 4 Economy
00:15:43 5 Topography
00:18:05 6 Climate
00:19:14 7 See also



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The White Earth Indian Reservation (Ojibwe: Gaa-waabaabiganikaag, lit. "Where there is an abundance of white clay") is the home to the White Earth Band, located in northwestern Minnesota. It is the largest Indian reservation in that state by land area. The reservation includes all of Mahnomen County, plus parts of Becker and Clearwater counties in the northwest part of the state, along the Wild Rice and White Earth rivers.  It is about 225 miles (362 km) from Minneapolis–Saint Paul and roughly 65 miles (105 km) from Fargo–Moorhead.
Community members often prefer to identify as Anishinaabe or Ojibwe  rather than Chippewa, a corruption of Ojibwe that came to be used by European settlers to refer to them.  The reservation's land area is 1,093 sq mi (2,831 km²), and its population was 9,192 as of the 2000 U.S. census.  The White Earth Indian Reservation is one of six bands that make up the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, their governing body for major administrative needs. The Band issues its own reservation license plates to vehicles.

The White Earth Reservation was created on March 19, 1867, during a treaty signing in Washington, DC. Ten Ojibwe Indian chiefs met with President Andrew Johnson at the White House to negotiate the treaty.  The chiefs Wabanquot (White Cloud), a Gull Lake Mississippi Chippewa, and Fine Day, of the Removable Mille Lacs Indians, were among the first to move with their followers to White Earth in 1868.
The reservation originally covered 1,300 square miles (3,400 km²).  Much of the community's land was improperly sold or seized by outside interests, including the U.S. federal government, in the late 19th century and early 20th century.  According to the Dawes Act of 1887, the communal land was to be allotted to individual households recorded in tribal rolls, for cultivation in subsistence farming.  Under the act, the remainder was declared surplus and available for sale to non-Native Americans.  The Nelson Act of 1889 was a corollary law that enabled the land to be divided and sold to non-Natives.  In the latter half of the 20th century, the federal government arranged for the transfer of state and county land to the reservation in compensation for other property that had been lost.
In 1989, Winona LaDuke formed the White Earth Land Recovery Project, which has slowly been acquiring land privately held to add back to the value of the non-profit 501(c)(3) to be used for collateral.  At that time, less than 10% of the land within the reservation boundaries was owned by tribal members.
The White Earth Band government operates the Shooting Star Casino, Hotel and Event center in Mahnomen, Minnesota. The entertainment and gambling complex employs over 1000 tribal and non-tribal staff, with a new location in Bagley, Minnesota.