
	Where results make sense

Topic: Grand Portage Band of Chippewa

Related Topics

Minnesota Indian Affairs Council

Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Council

Ojibwa

Ojibways of the Pic River First Nation, Ontario, Canada

Minister of Defense

Juliaca

Ojibwe language

Zoran Knezevic

	Ojibwa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ojibwa, Aanishanabe or Chippewa (also Ojibwe, Ojibway, Chippeway, Anishinaabe, or Anishinabek) are the largest group of Native Americans/First Nations north of Mexico, including Métis.
		Most Ojibwa, except for the Plains bands, lived a sedentary lifestyle, engaging in fishing, hunting, the farming of maize and squash, and the harvesting of Manoomin (wild rice).
		Several bands of Ojibwa 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/Chippewa (2242 words)

	Mille Lacs Band Statutes Annotated, Title 2 - Band Governmental Power and Sovereignty
		The Band Assembly hereby declares that the United States of America is possessed of a legal and moral obligation to guarantee usufructuary rights of members of the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians by virtue of Congress ratification of the Treaty of 1837.
		The Band Assembly hereby declares that members of the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians are culturally heavily dependent on hunting, fishing, and the gathering of wild rice as vital to the continuance of a cultural existence in the ceded territory.
		The Band Assembly hereby declares that it is the policy of the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians that the exercise of this treaty right shall be in accordance with culturally established principles of conservation.
	www.narf.org /nill/Codes/mlcode/mltitle2govpow.htm (8032 words)

	Minnesota Indian Affairs Council - Grand Portage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The Grand Portage Reservation is located in Cook County in the extreme northeast corner of Minnesota, approximately 150 miles from Duluth.
		Grand Marais is the closest city, 36 miles to the southwest, and Thunder Bay, Canada, is 37 miles to the north.
		The Grand Portage Tribal Council is the governing body of the reservation and is a member of the MCT.
	www.cri-bsu.org /IA_web/htdocs/tribes/granport.html (1149 words)

	GRAND PORTAGE, Minnesota, Ojibwe Indian Reservation
		The Grand Portage reservation has been called "an artist's paradise" because of its scenic beauties which may be visited without crowds, litter and the usual disappointments (most of the tourist-frequented parks are southwest of the reservation).
		Grand Portage -- tour old fort, casino info, pix northshore tourist service web notes that there are Indian attractions and accomodations, among the many luxury inns, parks and campgrounds of the North Shore area.
		Grand Portage's participation in the Minnesota 1856 Authority (a hunting-fishing regulatory body of 2 tribes signatory to that treaty concerning off-reservation reserved hunting and fishing rights) is discussed.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/maps/mn/grandport.htm (1072 words)

	MPR: Grand Portage: Rich in land, and protective of it
		But today's Grand Portage members are more likely to be found on treadmills or at the indoor swimming pool, fighting the epidemics of heart disease and diabetes that are common among American Indians.
		Grand Portage already owned 75 percent of the land on the reservation before it opened its casino in 1990 (the lodge has been open since 1975).
		Grand Portage didn't take part in early Ojibwe treaties with the United States, even though they were part of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2003/06/21_ap_grandportage (1280 words)

	NAGPRA NOTICES OF INTENT TO REPATRIATE: Cultural Items from Grand Portage, MN in the Possession of the Minnesota ...
		In Ojibwe culture, objects used by members of the Grand Medicine Society or in Midewiwin practices are part of the traditional activities that have religious significance in the continued observance of such ceremonies.
		Often these bodies functioned as bands and were under the acknowledged leadership of a clan chief or ``Headman.'' In the case of Mr.
		In 1979, the people of the Grand Portage Band were unaware that these peace medals and flags had been presented to and received by the Minnesota Historical Society.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nagpra/fed_notices/nagpradir/nir0158.html (878 words)

	Cook County News-Herald - Grand Marais, Minnesota
		In the fall of 2003, Grand Portage Trust Lands biologist Ben Whiting tagged and released this 50-inch, sub-adult, lake sturgeon as part of a lake-wide effort to restore these fish to Lake Superior.
		The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will be honored as an outstanding conservationist at a Dec. 7 luncheon at the annual convention of the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts in Duluth.
		Jim Hull of Grand Portage was a founding supervisor in 1969 and other band members served as Soil & Water Board supervisors during the ‘70s, he said.
	www.grandmarais-mn.com /placed/index.php?sect_rank=2&story_id=187633 (830 words)

	Canku Ota - Dec.30, 2000 - Grand Portage
		GRAND PORTAGE, MINNESOTA -- When a 300-acre parcel that included the highest waterfall in Minnesota was put up for sale more than a decade ago, it could have been scooped up and developed as a resort or closed off entirely.
		The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the band will sign a trust agreement in Grand Portage giving the property to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to be held in trust for the band.
		The band lost the property more than a half-century ago, and it was owned privately until what is now the Parks and Trails Council of Minnesota bought it in 1988.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues00/Co12302000/CO_12302000_GrandPortage.htm (502 words)

	Grand Portage Travel Planner - Grand Portage National Monument by TravelEze.com
		Grand Portage National Monument was established to commemorate and preserve a premier site and route of the 18th century fur trade that led to pioneering international commerce and exploration in North America, as well as cultural contact between Ojibwe and other Native societies and the North West Company partners, clerks and canoe-men.
		Grand Portage National Monument is of international and regional significance because it was the central hub of a once flourishing fur trade.
		Grand Portage was and remains a meeting ground of diverse cultures.
	www.traveleze.com /travel_planning/grandportage.html (253 words)

	C F C C - Dependency Case Law
		The band contended that service on the tribe as a whole had delayed its notice because the tribe had to determine which of its bands was associated with the mother's relatives.
		The band notified the juvenile court that it supported reunification with the mother, but if reunification failed, the band had located a band member interested in adopting the child.
		The band believed that adoption by the band member instead of the foster parents was in the child's best interest.
	www.courtinfo.ca.gov /programs/cfcc/resources/caselaw/depend/180.htm (1193 words)

	Ojibwa
		The Ojibwa or Chippewa (also "Anishinabe", "Anishaabe", "Ojibwe", "Ojibway", "Chippeway") are the third-largest group of Native Americans in the United States, surpassed only by the Cherokee and Navajo.
		They are known for their canoes and wild rice, and for the fact that they were the only Indian nation to defeat the Sioux." [1]
		Their typical dwelling was the waaginogan, made of birch bark, cedar bark and willow saplings.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/o/oj/ojibwa.html (360 words)

	GORP - Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Grand Portage National Monument is a superb National Park Service facility, a place where history and terrain come together into a single, pithy unit.
		The Grand Portage itself was obscured by vegetation and fallen trees.
		In 1958, the Grand Portage band of Minnesota Chippewa donated the lands that became the national monument that same year.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_nm/mn_grand.htm (1864 words)

	In re Santos Y.
		On November 11, 1999, the Grand Portage TSW informed the Department' s CSW that she did not have a response from the tribal council concerning the Minor, but would notify the CSW as soon as she knew of one.
		A week later, on November 18, 1999, the Grand Portage TSW informed the Department' s CSW that she had spoken with a Tribe TSW at Cass Lake, and that the Tribe had located a first cousin of the Mother, JoAnn B., who might be interested in the Minor.
		The Department' s report stated that the Grand Portage TSW had said that she was certain that there were no other relatives to contact regarding the Minor, and the report referred to an attached letter from the TSW, which the court was unable to locate.
	www.law.com /regionals/ca/opinions/oct/b144822.shtml (14125 words)

	Grand Portage National Monument Home Page
		Grand Portage is about 150 miles northeast of Duluth, Minnesota and 50 miles southwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada along the beautiful north shore of Lake Superior.
		Grand Portage National Monument is situated within the Grand Portage Indian Reservation and is seven miles from the Canadian border.
		The Grand Portage Lodge is approximately three quarters of a mile on the left.
	www.nps.gov /grpo/home1.htm (2709 words)

	Park Info: Grand Portage State Park: Minnesota DNR
		Git-che-O-ni-ga-ming and Grand Portage are Ojibwe and French words for "a great carrying place." Grand Portage State Park and the surrounding area is rich in Indian and fur trade history.
		The park lies within the Grand Portage Indian Reservation and is bordered by Canada on the north and east.
		The park was established in 1989 through the cooperative efforts of the State of Minnesota and the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Indians.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /state_parks/grand_portage/narrative.html (763 words)

	Letter to Ventura
		Cass County vs. Leech Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, 524 U.S. Despite these changes in federal law, tribal governments in Minnesota have continued to assert that the reservations that were disestablished (or at a minimum greatly diminished) by the Nelson Act continue to exist to the limits of their original boundaries.
		The Grand Portage Band brought suit against a non-Indian who operated a marina on privately owned land within the exterior boundaries of the original Grand Portage Reservation, claiming that he had to comply with their zoning laws.
		The Mille Lacs Band continues to assert that it has co-management authority over the Mille Lacs fishery, even though when the Protocols were negotiated between the Mille Lacs Band and the State of Minnesota, the State expressly reserved management authority.
	www.perm.org /articles/a172.html (1578 words)

	Minnesota American Indian Bar Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Appeals from the trial court are taken to the Grand Portage Court of Appeals, which is comprised of the three judges who did not hear the matter at the trial level.
		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.
		Pro se litigants and Band member lay advocates may appear before the Court.Attorneys must submit a completed application stating that he or she is admitted to the highest court of any state and must also submit an annual $100.00 license fee.
	maiba.org /tribalcourts.html (2301 words)

	News5.2
		In February, 2000 the Appellate Court for the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa issued its first ruling, in its first and only case, involving the tribe's claim of the power to enforce zoning ordinances against non-members on non-member owned fee land.
		Melby has participated in commerce with the Band by the use of tribal water facilities and waste disposal facilities, this gives the tribe the right to regulate his property.
		The court said that, "When Melby makes claims of discrimination or constitutional violations as a result of his lack of voting power or voice in the government establishing the ordinance, his claim of a lack of equal protection is an untested assumption.
	www.perm.org /articles/a099.html (1237 words)

	Revised Constitution of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota
		All persons of Minnesota Chippewa Indian blood whose names appear on the annuity roll of April 14, 1941, prepared pursuant to the Treaty with said Indians as enacted by Congress in the Act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat.
		The governing bodies of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe shall be the Tribal Executive Committee and the Reservation Business Committees of the White Earth, Leech Lake, Fond du Lac, Bois Forte (Nett Lake), and Grand Portage Reservations, and the Nonremoval Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians, hereinafter referred to as the six (6) Reservations.
		The books and records of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe shall be audited at least once each year by a competent auditor employed by the Tribal Executive Committee, and at such times as the Tribal Executive Committee or the Secretary of the Interior or his authorized representative may direct.
	thorpe.ou.edu /constitution/chippewa/index.html (3640 words)

	EPA approves joint water quality management with Chippewa tribe near Lake Superior
		GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved a cooperative agreement between the Grand Portage band of Chippewa Indians and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) which establishes joint water-quality management over parts of Lake Superior -- the first such arrangement between a State and an Indian Tribe in the United States.
		The authorization recognizes the Indian band's technical ability to establish standards for water quality affecting its reservation in Northeast Minnesota, or the north shore of Lake Superior.
		Grand Portage Band Chairman Norman Deschampe expressed his satisfaction with the agreements as well.
	www.uswaternews.com /archives/arcquality/6epawqual.html (396 words)

	treaty rights
		Ojibwe on and off Minnesota Indian reservations frequently complain that their tribal governments are corrupt, or that major decisions are made by a handful of leaders who remain largely unaccountable to the people.
		The Band had earlier applied for Treatment in the Same Manner as a State under provisions of the Clean Water Act.
		EPA's awarding Treatment as a State (TAS) status to the Mille Lacs Band within the boundaries of the old Mille Lacs Reservation for administering water quality programs would seem to foreshadow a clash with state officials, since Minnesota's position has been that the old 1855 Treaty reservation was diminished and disestablished.
	www.citizensalliance.org /links/pages/articles/Treaty_Rights_Wider.html (603 words)

	GAO-06-95, Indian Tribes: EPA Should Reduce the Review Time for Tribal Requests to Manage Environmental Programs
		Grand Portage Band of Chippewa (MN); Date submitted[A]: 10/13/1993; Date approved: 7/16/1996; Time elapsed (months): 33.1.
		For example, the Chippewa tribe in Minnesota includes the Grand Portage Band, the Fond du Lac Band, the Bois Forte Band, the Mille Lacs Band, the Leech Lake Band, and the White Earth Band.
		Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Nation, 492 U.S. 408 (1989), Nevada v.
	www.gao.gov /htext/d0695.html (11238 words)

	Grand Portage Bay - Public water access: Minnesota DNR
		The Grand Portage Band of the Chippewa own and operate this marina and access.
		The marina has approximately 22 slips, it is located within the Grand Portage Bay which provides some protection for boaters, although the bay itself is shallow and in spots may impede deeper draft boat navigation.
		The Grand Portage Band also operates the Voyager Marina across Grand Portage Bay, it has a boat launch and parking.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /water_access/harbors/grand_portage.html (121 words)

	1/28 - Reservation gets grants for wildlife study
		The band also received $133,150 to study the dynamics of moose populations and census techniques; $60,920 to study fishing pressures on certain walleye populations; and $42,506 to study the sturgeon population in the upper St. Louis River.
		The Grand Portage Band of Chippewa received $104,025 to continue assessment and rehabilitation of native, at-risk fish in Lake Superior and its tributaries and $84,911 to help restore wetlands and wild rice on tribal lands.
		The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe received $209,708 for wildlife habitat assessment and $133,858 for habitat improvement projects.
	www.greatlakesdirectory.org /mn/012804_great_lakes.htm (437 words)

	Grand Portage NM: Administrative History (Appendix B) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The Secretary of the Interior, under regulations prescribed by him, shall grant recognized members of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe the preferential privilege to provide those visitor accommodations and services, including guide services, which he deems are necessary within the monument.
		The administration of the Grand Portage National Monument shall not in any manner interfere with the operation or existence of any trade or business of said tribe outside the boundaries of the national monument.
		To the extent that appropriated funds and personnel are available therefor, the Secretary of the Interior shall provide consultative or advisory assistance to the Minnesota Chippewea Tribe and the Grand Portage Band of Chippewea Indians, Minnesota, in the planning of facilities or developments upon the lands adjacent to the monument.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/grpo/adhiab.htm (428 words)

	ICT [2003/05/16] Call for resignation of DNR Chief after 'Apartheid' remark
		Traditional Chippewa spearfishing within the ceded territory was outlawed in 1908.
		Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, upholding the hunting, fishing and gathering treaty rights of the Chippewa and Ojibwe tribes of Minnesota and Wisconsin on lands outside of their reservations.
		Even though many studies have shown that pollution has been a larger threat to the ecosystems of lakes in both states, and that tribes have only harvested 3 percent of the walleye, the tensions continue to pervade in the small townships in the ceded areas; tensions that are encouraged by groups like PERM.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1053100612 (780 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)