Red Lake Band of Chippewa

The Red Lake Indian Reservation is home to the federally recognized Red Lake Band of Chippewa. It is unique as the only "closed reservation" in Minnesota. In a closed reservation, all land is held in common by the tribe and there is no private property.[4]

The tribe claims the land by right of conquest and aboriginal title; they were not reassigned to it by the United States government.[4] The Red Lake Band of Chippewa refused to join with six other bands in organizing as the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in the mid-1930s; at the time, its people wanted to preserve their traditional system of hereditary chiefs, rather than forming an electoral government.

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References

1. Wikipedia contributors, "Red Lake Indian Reservation," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, < link > (accessed February 11, 2024).
2. Red Lake Nation < link >
3. Wikipedia contributors, "Ojibwe," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, < link (accessed February 11, 2024).