The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada ( reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology ), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included "... the Montagnais, and some of the tribes of Maine ; the Algonkin, Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Micmac ; farther west the Assiniboine, Cree, Foxes, Chippewa, Miami, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Illinois, Sioux, and Winnebago ; in the South the people who built the mounds in Florida, and the Tonkawa, Attacapa, Karankawa, Caddo, and Comanche (?

Today they live as part of the federally recognized Chippewa Cree tribe, located on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in Montana.

They share the reservation with the Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians, who form the " Chippewa " half of the Chippewa Cree tribe.

The Chippewa-Cree Tribe is a federally recognized tribe on the Rocky Boy Reservation in Montana who are descendants of Cree who migrated south from Canada and Chippewa ( Ojibwe ) who moved west from the Turtle Mountains in North Dakota in the late nineteenth century.

The Chief Asiniiwin ( Chippewa ) ( his name was mistranslated as Rocky Boy ) and Chief Little Bear ( Cree ) and their bands were the founders of the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in north central Montana.

According to tribal traditions of absorbing war captives and all children of tribal women in the matrilineal system, if residents identified as Cree or Chippewa, they were counted as Native American, regardless of whether they had other ancestry.

They and their descendants provided for such " adopted " status in the Chippewa Cree Tribal Constitution, which they wrote in 1934-1935 and which was certified by the Department of the Interior in 1935 under the Indian Reorganization Act.

The Chippewa Cree Business Committee, the government of the tribe, recently repealed this provision of the Constitution.

Critics such as Delvin Cree ( Turtle Mountain Chippewa ), a reporter with the The Tribal Independent, wrote in an Opinion piece on Indianz. com that the tribe's practices of high-interest, short-term lending are generally classified as predatory lending.

Because the Chippewa Cree Tribe is a sovereign nation which enjoys tribal immunity, it is not subject to state laws which seek to prevent usury by regulating high-interest lending.

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He was able to obtain the necessary U. S. citizenship in July 1984 because he had Métis ancestry on his father's side ( Cree / Chippewa ).

* The Chippewa Cree tribe in Montana

Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa ( or Anishinaabemowin in Eastern Ojibwe syllabics ) is the third most commonly spoken Native language in Canada ( after Cree and Inuktitut ), and the fourth most spoken in North America ( behind Navajo, Cree, and Inuktitut ).

Ojibwe / Chippewa, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and a variety of Cree groups lived in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, Western Ontario and the Canadian Prairies.

The Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation of the federally recognized Chippewa Cree Tribe located in the U. S. state of Montana.

The Chippewa Cree Tribe ( CCT, governing body ) of the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation was organized in accordance with the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 ( 34 Stat.

The governing document is the Constitution and By-Laws of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, Montana enacted in 1935 and amended in 1973.

In 1902, Chief Rocky Boy petitioned President Theodore Roosevelt for a " closed reservation " for the Chippewa Cree, in which the land would be preserved only for them.

The Chippewa Cree Business Committee ( Tribal Council ) is the governing body of the Tribe.

As of July 5, 2011, the sitting members of the Chippewa Cree Business Committee are the following:

The majority of reservation residents work for the self-governing Chippewa Cree Tribe.

( In Canada the Chippewa are known as Ojibwa.

Among Couse's works in public galleries are Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe ( Smithsonian American Art Museum ); The Forest Camp ( Brooklyn Museum of Art ); The Tom-Tom Maker ( Lotos Club, New York ); Medicine Fires ( Montclair Gallery, New Jersey ); and Shapanagons, a Chippewa Chief ( Detroit Museum of Art ).

The Ojibwe ( or Chippewa, as they are known in the United States ), a branch of the Anishinaabe-speaking language group, gradually migrated west along both sides of the Great Lakes.

Another source opines that: " There are two possible derivations: from ' Sace-nong ' or ' Sak-e-nong ' ( Sauk Town ) because the Sauk ( Sac ) once lived there, or from Chippewa words meaning ' place of the outlet ' from ' sag ' ( an opening ) and ' ong ' ( place of ).

The following highways are maintained by the Chippewa County Road Commission as part of the county road system.

There are no commercial airline airports in Cheboygan County but the nearest ones are Alpena County Regional Airport, Chippewa County International Airport ( Sault Ste.

* The nearest airports with scheduled passenger service are in Chippewa County International Airport in Kinross ( northeast of St. Ignace, adjacent to I-75 ) and Pellston Regional Airport in the Lower peninsula.

School district serving the Township residents are Chippewa Valley Schools, L ' Anse Creuse Public Schools, New Haven Community Schools and Utica Community Schools.

Although there was no fighting and the actual intentions of the Dakota are not clear, their presence in the area forced the Chippewa to vacate Teepee Hill.

Portions of the township are within the boundaries of the Chippewa National Forest, Bowstring State Forest, and Welsh Lake State Forest.

I-376 and U. S. 422 are briefly concurrent with each other on the New Castle Bypass, though south of New Castle until Chippewa Township near Beaver Falls, I-376 is tolled by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.

In addition there are several parochial schools: McDonell Central Catholic High School, Notre Dame Middle School, Holy Ghost, St. Charles, and St. Peter Elementary Schools, all of which are part of the Chippewa Area Catholic Schools ( CACS ).

The nearest airports with scheduled passenger service are in Pellston Regional Airport, Traverse City Cherry Capital Airport and Alpena County Regional Airport in the Lower peninsula and Chippewa County International Airport in Sault Ste.

The Ojibwe ( also Ojibwa or Ojibway ) or Chippewa ( also Chippeway ) are among the largest groups of Native Americans – First Nations north of Mexico.

Although many variations exist in literature, " Chippewa " is more common in the United States and " Ojibwa " predominates in Canada, but both terms are used in each country.

Hayward is a popular fishing destination because of the many lakes in the area including Lac Courte Oreilles, Grindstone Lake, Round Lake, Moose Lake, Windigo Lake, and the Chippewa Flowage, which are known for yielding trophy-sized muskellunge (" muskie " or " musky "), northern pike, walleye, and smallmouth bass.

Chippewa and Mackinac counties are in the Eastside, whereas the rest are in the Westside.

Despite the superficial similarity of the names, the Chipewyan are not related to the Chippewa ( Ojibwa ) people.

Many unincorporated but well-known areas are part of the Lake community: Wolf and Orchard Islands, Artists ' Isle, Waterbury, Dunn's Pond, O ' Connor's Point, Lake Breeze, Long Island, Avondale, King's Landing, Turkeyfoot and Sassafras Points, Chippewa and Blackhawk, and the many islands and areas comprising the Indian Isles: Lake Ridge, Shawnee, Seminole, Cranberry Bay, Miami, Tecumseh, and Minnewauken.

The southern and eastern shores of the lake, as well as all the islands, are protected within the Ten Section Area of the Chippewa National Forest.