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Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians

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By the mid-nineteenth century, records showed that scholars and Indian agents were generally using the band's Ojibwe name, although they struggled to render the spelling in the best way to convey pronunciation:
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and the Removable Lake Superior Chippewa Bands of the Chippewa Reservation, agreed to a merger and re-organization. Together, these central Minnesota peoples formed today's
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In turn, that year the Leech Lake and White Earth bands participated in writing a constitution for a new tribal government. They were two of six bands that formed the
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Chippeways of Leech Lake (Lewis and Clark, 1806), English transliteration of French name adopted from other Algonquian-speaking people
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In 1934, the Cass Lake, Lake Winnibigoshish and Leech Lake Pillagers, together with the White Oak Point Reservation of the
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There also was a similarly named different Turtle Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa who was amalgamated with the
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There also was a similarly named different Red Cedar Lake Band of Lake Superior Chippewa who was amalgamated with the
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Turtle Portage Band of Chippewa Indians, located about Turtle River and Turtle Lake, between Leech Lake and
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The Pillagers at the time had several sub-bands, identified by location. These included the following:
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for their military activities as the advance guard of the Ojibwe in the invasion of the
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plunderers (Beltrami, quoted by Neill, 1858, a combination of French and English terms)
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Through the treaty process with the United States, the Pillager Band were settled on
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The 1847 Treaty between the United States and the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians
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agreed to relocate to that reservation so they would no longer be landless.
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for their overall government and services within the area of the state.
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in present-day Minnesota. Their name "Pillagers" is a translation of
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Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance
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Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
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was created in 1867, the western Pillagers living about
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Index

Ojibwe language
Chippewa (Ojibwe)
headwaters
Mississippi River
autonym
Dakota
Treaty of Fond du Lac
Red Cedar (Cass) Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
Red Lake
Lake Winnibigoshish Band of Chippewa Indians
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
Otter Tail Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
reservations
Minnesota
1855 Treaty of Washington
Stat.
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Cass Lake Reservation
Lake Winnibigoshish Reservation
Leech Lake Reservation
United States
White Earth Reservation
Otter Tail Lake
Mississippi Chippewa
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
Leech Lake Indian Reservation
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
White Earth Band of Chippewa

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