Turtle Mountain Reservation

White historians claim that the Turtle Mountain Reservation was created on December 21, 1882 by Presidential Executive Order. The date coincides with ogima Big Bear signing treaty 2 and treaty 4, during the same year of 1882. Many Anishinabek who are aware of the Turtle Mountain Reservation, do not know that half of the Turtle Mountain Reservation is located in Montana. What almost all Anishinabek don't know, is the real Turtle Mountain Reservation of Montana and North Dakota, is the 900 sq. mi. Fort Buford Military Reservation. However, the 900 sq. mi. Fort Buford Military Reservation (the real Turtle Mountain Reservation of Montana and North Dakota) has nothing to do with the Turtle Mountain Reservation of Manitoba and North Dakota.

A conspiracy or cover-up exists, to erase from Anishinabe memory, the knowledge of knowing about this secretive Reservation, which covers the entire Turtle Mountain Plateau. Supposedly after the Turtle Mountain Reservation was established in 1882, problems over fear and greed, led the white invaders to conspire to break treaty promises in 1884. There is, after all, that historical record which claims that the United States set aside 22 townships or 506,882 acres, for the Chippewa's of the Turtle Mountain Band.

In 1884, the United States thought they set aside too much land for the Chippewa's then stole 20 of the 22 townships they set aside to be the Turtle Mountain Reservation. Then after the McCumber Agreement was ratified by the United States, the United States commenced to think that for some reason there wasn't enough land on the two township Turtle Mountain Reservation to hand out allotments. So they had to hand out land allotments in Montana, extreme northwestern North Dakota, and South Dakota, to the 1,000s of Chippewa's who filed for land allotments. In the Glasgow, Montana office alone, over 3,000 land allotments were handed out to the Chippewa's. However, the McCumber Agreement did not involve the Turtle Mountain Reservation of Manitoba and North Dakota.

It involved the Turtle Mountain Reservation of Montana and North Dakota. After the 1892 McCumber Agreement, the real Turtle Mountain Reservation of Montana and North Dakota, was set aside. It was eradicated in 1904, after the United States supposedly ratified the ten cent an acre treaty (it was really the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty). The land allotments handed out to the Chippewa's, were specifically for the Chippewa's of the real Turtle Mountain Reservation of Montana and North Dakota (the 900 sq. mi. Fort Buford Military Reservation), and the Fort Peck Reservation. That occurred starting in either 1904 or 1905. It led to great problems and a near war in Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

The Turtle Mountain Reservation of North Dakota covers around 46,080 acres or the two townships the United States set aside for them. However, we must remember that the whites originally set aside 22 townships (506,882 acres) for the Chippewa's. You only need to look to the north of Belcourt to find the 506,882 acre Turtle Mountain Reservation. As mentioned earlier, the entire Turtle Mountain Plateau is the 22 townships the Turtle Mountain Reservation covers.

Why would i claim that? There are no settlements (cities and towns within the entire area known as the Turtle Mountain Plateau) in that entire area which is 40 miles in width and 20 miles in length. I would estimate the entire Turtle Mountain Plateau covers over 500,000 acres or around 22 townships. An interesting subject about the Turtle Mountain Plateau is the fact that it is covered over by a forest. There are some farms throughout the area and lakes but a huge forest exists out on the plains of northern North Dakota. Montana is about 125 miles due west. I thought the forests ended in eastern Manitoba and northwestern Minnesota. However, this is evidence that the forests extended much further westward than we have been taught. Something seems out of place. And the supposed Turtle Mountains are really not mountains, but just simple tiny hills. About the United States stealing 20 of the 22 townships they set aside to be the Turtle Mountain Reservation.

During the 1880s, serious problems developed between the native Chippewa's and the invading whites. On June 25, 1882 a group of illegal white settlers established a settlement at what is now St. John. Enraged by the invasion, ogima Little Shell and 200 Chippewa soldiers, paid a visit to the invaders and told them to leave which they did. However, they notified white leaders who then sent a force of over 40 soldiers under the command of Major Conrad, to the Turtle Mountains. Major Conrad met with ogima Little Shell and he behaved in the most hostile of manners. He warned ogima Little Shell he would have him murdered if he harmed any white settlers.

Something very serious obviously occurred afterwards because supposedly later on during that same year, the Turtle Mountain Reservation covering 22 townships, was established. Then in 1889, or a couple of years after the filthy 1887 Dawes Act was created, new problems erupted on the Turtle Mountain Reservation over taxes the county the Reservation was in. The whites wanted the Chippewa's who owned cattle, to pay taxes. Chippewa cattle owners refused to pay taxes which led the sheriff of Dunseith to request for the National Guard. A force of soldiers from the National Guard was in fact detached to the Turtle Mountain Reservation but before reaching their destination, they were ordered to return to their homes. Below are the demographics of this Reservation.

Turtle Mountain Reservation Demographics
Covers 792 sq. mi. or 506,882 acres.
Total Population: 8,307 (it is really over 13,000)
Indian: 8,009
White: 242
Black: 5
Asian: 10
Mixed: 41
Hispanic: 76 - Hispanic population is corrupted as usual. Mexicans are predominantly descended from the Native Americans who lived in the eastern part of the United States. The whites have forced them to lose their tribal identities.

Average household size is 3.3

Below is a list of the Chippewa settlements located on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation of North Dakota.

Belcourt
Dunseith
East Belcourt
East Dunseith
North Dunseith
St. John
Shell Valley
West Belcourt

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