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These treaties are living documents… If you’re a citizen of the United States today, you are party to these treaties and …Treaties are the supreme law of the land…We all have some responsibilities to each other, whether we like them or not, to uphold our responsibilities to each other that are dictated under the terms of these treaties. Congress did not just pass them and forget about them. Tribes did not just sign them and forget about them. They are very much living documents that essentially codified a way of life for both the Anishinaabe, the Indian people, as well as giving the settlers, the colonists access to some land they wanted. – Bob Shimek, Elder at the White Earth Chippewa ReservationContinue Reading

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On July 13, 1892, the United States Congress established a commission consisting of Indian Commissioner Porter McCumber, John W. Wilson, and W.W. Flemming. Working with United States Indian Agent John Waugh they sought to negotiate with the Pembina Chippewa Chief Little Shell III and his Grand Council for the cessionContinue Reading

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The health and well-being of the community was of prime importance to the Chippewa (Ojibwe, Ojibway), and a number of techniques and uses of plants were used to prevent and cure various illnesses. By the mid 1920s many of the pre-reservation era elders of the tribes with plant usage andContinue Reading

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The Chippewa, like all Anishinaabe peoples were extremely creative with oration and expressed it significantly through Poetry and Song. As a result of a culture valuing this art form for millennia, it is common to find modern Chippewa naturally inclined to poetry and music. One of the most famous ChippewaContinue Reading

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Brief Summary The Pembina Chippewa are an Anishinaabe people whose origin mythology reaches back to the re-creation of North America following a great flood. North America is a relatively new term relating to Italian Explorer Amerigo Vespucci. In 1507, only 15 years after Columbus first arrived, German Cartographer (map maker)Continue Reading