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	Indian Country Article - Bois Forte Band of Chippewa
		The center of the Bois Forte universe is Nett Lake; it's in the wild rice beds, spirit island and in the water itself.
		Kevin Leecy, chairman of the reservation tribal council, said it well when he proclaimed that the culture lives within the people even though they may be working in a business climate on or off the reservation, or have completed high levels of education; and he should know.
		Bois Forte means people of the thick fur woods or people of the hard woods, or hard people of the woods; not to mean the people are hard, but meaning hardy and strong willed and determined in order to live in the dense forests, lakes and sub-zero temperatures of northern Minnesota.
	www.boisfortednr.com /COF/indiancountry02.html (1531 words)

	Welcome to the MAIBA website
		Court of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa
		Appeals of civil matters from the Bois Forte Court are taken to the Court of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, which conducts most of its hearings at a location convenient to both the court and the parties.
		The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe is the federation of six of the seven Chippewa tribes in Minnesota: Bois Forte, Fond du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, Mille Lacs, and White Earth.
	www.maiba.org /tribalCourts.html (2279 words)

	Leech Lake Indian Reservation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Leech Lake Indian Reservation or Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag in the Ojibwe language, is located in the north-central Minnesota counties of Beltrami, Cass, Hubbard, and Itasca.
		The core areas of the Leech Lake Indian Reservation were established according to a treaty in 1855 as three smaller reservations for the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians and modified several times thereafter.
		Under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the contemporary Leech Lake Indian Reservation was formed from the merger of Leech Lake, Cass Lake and Lake Winnibigoshish Reservations of the Pillager Band, Chippewa Indian Reservation of the removable Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians and White Oak Point Indian Reservation of the Mississippi Chippewa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leech_Lake_Indian_Reservation (370 words)

	Traditions Applied: Bois Forte Band of Chippewa : ICT [2004/08/19]
		The center of the Bois Forte universe is Nett Lake; it's in the wild rice beds, spirit island and in the water itself.
		Kevin Leecy, chairman of the reservation tribal council, said it well when he proclaimed that the culture lives within the people even though they may be working in a business climate on or off the reservation, or have completed high levels of education; and he should know.
		Bois Forte means people of the thick fur woods or people of the hard woods, or hard people of the woods; not to mean the people are hard, but meaning hardy and strong willed and determined in order to live in the dense forests, lakes and sub-zero temperatures of northern Minnesota.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1092926367 (1526 words)

	Forte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		forte, a fencing term for the "strong" part of the blade.
		Forte Stollen, a fictional character from the Galaxy Angel milieu.
		Bois Forte Indian Reservation, an Indian reservation in Minnesota, United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forte (276 words)

	L'Anse Indian Reservation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The L'Anse Indian Reservation is the land base of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of the Lake Superior Bands of Chippewa Indians (successor of the L’Anse and Ontonagon Bands).
		It is located primarily in two non-contiguous sections on either side of the Keweenaw Bay in Baraga County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
		The total land area of the reservation is 238.622 km² (92.132 sq mi) and there were 3,672 persons residing on its territory as of the 2000 census, of whom more than 69 percent were white people and only 24.4 percent of solely Native American heritage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/L'Anse_Indian_Reservation (403 words)

	EPA Region 5 Tribes - Bois Forte Band of Chippewa
		The Bois Forte Reservation is home to the Bois Forte Band of Chippewas, one of six recognized Bands of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.
		The Bois Forte Reservation was established by Treaty with the United States government in 1866.
		Bois Forte Environmental Services is responsible for comprehensive environmental management and planning and regulatory compliance in the areas of solid waste, public water and sewer systems, underground storage tanks, emergency response and environmental assessments.
	www.epa.gov /region5/tribes/tribepages/boisforte.htm (576 words)

	Bois Fort/Nett Lake, Minnesota, Ojibwe Reservation
		ois Fort consists of 3 pieces of land, of which Nett Lake (village, peninsula, lake and surrounding forest) is by far the largest.
		Through a network of Reserve stores -- where Natives were given credit to buy necessities against purchase (at a very low price) of their rice harvests, and loaned canoes to make the harvest, to to the food marketing outlets in eastern Canada, Ratuski had it all locked up.
		Bois Fort Sawmill uses tribal holdings of harvestable timber for about 20% of its capacity (this timber is mostly evergreens and aspen), and competes for timber from surrounding public lands timber sales.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/maps/mn/nettlake.htm (1378 words)

	Traditions Applied: Bois Forte leadership - inspired : ICT [2004/08/17]
		The Bois Forte Band receives $1.8 million from Minnesota as part of an agreement that prohibits unlimited hunting and fishing in the ceded lands of northeastern Minnesota by the tribal members.
		The Bois Forte members are eligible to catch double the state limit of fish as a result of the agreement.
		For the Bois Forte members who live in the urban areas, the council has set aside funding that will support meetings with those members to listen to their concerns, help with home repairs, mortgages and health care.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1092756179 (1497 words)

	Bois Forte educator returns home : ICT [2004/08/19]
		She is a graduate of the very school she now heads as principal and is also a product of the reservation.
		Teresa and Corey are living the dream the Bois Forte leaders and elders hold.
		Corey said out of six Indian students in his class in high school, four or five have returned to work for the tribe or their own a business.
	www.indiancountrytoday.org /content.cfm?id=1092928642 (938 words)

	CNN.com - Some Indian tribes bring back an old punishment: banishment - Jan. 2, 2004
		Indian leaders feared that the violence could lead to the formation of gangs.
		Kay Commodore, a Lummi Indian, was stripped of her tribal membership and banished from the reservation after she was convicted of drug trafficking in 1992.
		She is allowed on the reservation only to visit a plot of land she holds; she is forbidden to visit family members.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/01/02/banishing.indians.ap/index.html (755 words)

	Ojibwa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ojibwa allied themselves with the French in the French and Indian War, and with the British in the War of 1812.
		Through the efforts of Chief Buffalo and popular opinion against Ojibwa removal, the bands east of the Mississippi were allowed to return to permanent reservations on ceded territory.
		Several Ojibwa bands in the United States cooperate in the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, which manages their treaty hunting and fishing rights in the Lake Superior-Lake Michigan areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ojibwa (2977 words)

	Ojibwa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		They are known for their canoes and wild rice, and for the fact that they were the only Indian nation to defeat the Sioux.
		In Canada, the cession of land by treaty or purchase was governed by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and subsequently most of the land in Upper Canada was ceded to the Crown.
		By the end of the eighteenth century the Chippewa were the nearly unchallenged owners of almost all of present-day Michigan, northern Wisconsin, and Minnesota, including most of the Red River area and extending westward to the of North Dakota, together with the entire northern shores of Lakes Huron and Superior on the Canadian side.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Chippewa (771 words)

	State of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Gregory Good, Appellant (1986)
		The commissioner of natural resources may permit the transportation, sale and disposal of fish taken within the Red Lake Indian Reservation on Upper Red Lake and Lower Red Lake and from waters within the Nett Lake also known as Bois Forte Indian Reservation under such rules, regulations and conditions as the commissioner may prescribe.
		Central to the McCovey court's reasoning that federal law pre-empted California law was the existence of a comprehensive federal scheme of the Hooper Valley Reservation fishing operation.
		Any fish taken within said Indian reservation and sold, transported, or shipped therefrom contrary to any provision of these rules and regulations shall be contraband and shall be subject to seizure and confiscation in like manner as other contraband wild animals.
	www.maquah.net /Kafkaesque/cases/State-Good.html (1616 words)

	Timberjay Newspapers Online
		The opening of the new Family Wellness Center at Vermilion Reservation was a time for the Bois Forte community to think about both the past and the future.
		A showpiece of the new center is the Boys and Girls Club, a joint operation of the Boys and Girls Club of Duluth.
		The $3.5 million facility was funded with $1 million from the Bois Forte Reservation Tribal Council, $500,000 in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and a $2 million grant from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.
	www.timberjay.com /current.php?article=2427 (488 words)

	1998-99 Report - Native American Liaison
		Held extensive negotiations with the Makah Indian Reservation regarding the use of Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) settlement funds from the 1990 Tenyo Maru oil spill to fund the short-term stationing of a "rescue" tug at Neah Bay, Washington, near the mouth of the Straits of Juan de Fuca.
		The Penobscot Indian Nation is a strong cooperator in the anadromous fish restoration program with a seat on the Technical Advisory Committee which is made up of state, federal, and tribal fisheries biologists.
		The Native American Liaison was appointed as the Secretary's Representative to preside at an administrative hearing in Fort Yukon, Alaska, in the matter of a contract dispute between the Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments and Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
	www.fws.gov /nativeamerican/fy99anrep.html (5282 words)

	Treaty With The Chippewa - Bois Fort Band - 1866
		The peace and friendship now existing between the United States and said Bois Forte bands of Indians shall be perpetual.
		The Bois Forte band of Chippewas in like manner cede and relinquish forever to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest in and to all lands and territory lying westerly of said boundary line, or elsewhere within the limits of the United States.
		It is further agreed that all payments of annuities to the Bois Forte band of Chippewas shall be made upon their reservation if, upon examination, it shall be found practicable to do so.
	www.firstpeople.us /FP-Html-Treaties/TreatyWithTheChippewaBoisFortBand1866.html (338 words)

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	NAGPRA NOTICES OF INTENT TO REPATRIATE: Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: American Museum of Natural ...
		The cultural affiliation of the cultural items is Bois Forte (Nett Lake) Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe as indicated by Museum records and by consultation evidence presented by the Bois Forte (Nett Lake) Band of the Minnesota Chippewa, Minnesota.
		Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated with these sacred objects should contact Nell Murphy, Director of Cultural Resources, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, telephone (212) 769-5837, before January 21, 2005.
		The American Museum of Natural History is responsible for notifying Bois Forte (Nett Lake) Band of the Minnesota Chippewa, Minnesota, and the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota that this notice has been published.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nagpra/fed_notices/nagpradir/nir0301.html (528 words)

	Industrial Reporting, Inc. Article - Minnesota Mill Changes Gears To Cut Cedar
		The reservation put in a new mill for its own use in 1995 but only ran it about a month, according to Tim.
		The cedar is all northern white cedar, and most of it comes from Boise Cascades Corp., Potlatch Corp., and the Bois Forte Reservation.
		The Bois Forte Reservation, which is just 50 miles south of the Canadian border at its closest point, is actually three parcels of land or communities, the largest of which is Nett Lake.
	www.timberlinemag.com /articledatabase/view.asp?articleID=895 (1206 words)

	Bois Forte News Article - April 2006
		One of the things I am most proud of in my life is being a member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians.
		Bois Forte Medical and Dental Clinics at Nett Lake to benefit all band members.
		District II (Vermilion) voters and all Bois Forte Band Members can count on me to be as diligent in my efforts to improve their lives and communities as I have been as an employee of the Tribal Council and the Nett Lake School District.
	www.odiggys.com /raytoutloff/boisforte-april2006.htm (498 words)

	American Indian Communities in Minnesota - Bois Forte (Nett Lake) Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The Bois Forte people originally lived in Canada and were involved with the fur trade.
		The reservation was established by a treaty in 1866 with an original size of 103,863 acres.
		The Bois Forte Band is a part of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.
	www.senate.leg.state.mn.us /departments/scr/report/bands/boisforte.HTM (135 words)

	Official Site of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe
		It is estimated that more than 12,000 American Indians served in the United States Armed Forces in World War I, Approximately 600 Oklahoma Indians, mostly Choctaw and Cherokee, were assigned to the 142nd Infantry of the 36th Texas-Oklahoma National Gaurd Division.
		American Indians also invested more than $50,000,000 in war bonds, and contributed generously to the Red Cross and the Army and Navy Relief societies.
		Battle-experienced American Indian troops from World War II were joined by newly recruited Native Americans to fight Communist aggression during the Korean conflict.
	www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov /wacipi (890 words)

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		Treaty with the Chippewa--Bois Fort Band, 1866 Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J.
		ST: Minnesota Indian Reservation is home to the (Nett Lake) Band Basic information, from the Minnesota state legislature.Treaty with the Chippewa--Bois Fort Band, 1866 Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J
		Reservation was established by Treaty with the Chippewa--Bois Fort Band, 1866 Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J Kappler is NAME: RES (0335) Chippewa (Minnesota, USA) License Plates of Chippewa (Minnesota, USA) License Plates of the RES (0335)
	onehpnet40.hedeboosiery.org (268 words)

	Federally Recognized Tribes - Official American Indian Nations Listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The listed entities are acknowledged to have the immunities and privileges available to other federally acknowledged Indian tribes by virtue of their government-to-government relationship with the United States as well as the responsibilities, powers, limitations and obligations of such tribes.
		Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, Nevada and Oregon
		Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas
	www.comanchelodge.com /nations/federally-recognized-tribes.html (2674 words)

	Bois Forte - Divisions - Public Works
		Administration of the Indian Reservation Roads program and the operation of a Construction Enterprise are also with the Public Works Division.
		Operates and maintains the community water systems at the Indian Point, Nett Lake, Palmquist, and Vermilion sectors of the Reservation.
		This BIA program is administered by the Band through self governance compact to provide planning, surveying, preliminary and final design, archaeological, environmental, construction, and construction monitoring activities for all Bois Forte Indian Reservation Road projects.
	www.boisforte.com /divisions/public_works.htm (331 words)

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