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Online Resources
Native American Online Genealogy Records
 * Minnesota Native Americans, 1823, ($), index
 * Minnesota Native Americans, 1851, ($), index
 * Minnesota, Indian Allotment Records, 1888-1919, ($), free index
 * Iron Range Research Center, index

Introduction
The word Minnesota comes from a Dakota word meaning "sky-tinted water"

Two major Native American tribes—the Dakota (or Sioux) and the Ojibwa (Anishinabe or Chippewa)—lived in the area that is now Minnesota. Small groups from other tribes now also reside in the state, including the Winnebago, who once had reservation land there. By the late 1860s treaties had pushed the Native Americans off lands they had occupied and moved them onto reservations.

Many Native Americans still live on reservations in Minnesota. Seven Ojibwa reservations are located in the northern part of the state, and four Dakota communities occupy lands in the southern part. Other Native Americans reside in urban areas. More than 9,000 people of Ojibwa ancestry live in Minneapolis, and about 3,000 Ojibwa, Dakota, and Winnebago are in St. Paul. There are smaller groups of indigenous people in Duluth and Bemidji.

Tribes Recognized by the Federal Government
Lower Sioux Indian Community Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Minnesota Chippewa Tribe  (Six component reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake);Fond du Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Ban; White Earth Band) Prairie Island Indian Community Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Upper Sioux Indian Community

Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota Mdewakanton Sioux Indians Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (Six component reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake);Fond du Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Ban; White Earth Band) Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota Mdewakanton Sioux Indians Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota Upper Sioux Community

Agencies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Minnesota
Agencies and sub agencies were created as administrative offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its predecessors. Their purpose was (and is) to manage Indian affairs with the tribes, to enforce policies, and to assist in maintaining the peace. The names and location of these agencies may have changed, but their purpose remained basically the same.Many of the records of genealogical value were created by these offices.

The following list of agencies that have operated or now exist in Minnesota has been compiled from Hill's Office of Indian Affairs..., Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives Relating to American Indians , and others.


 * Birch Cooley Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * Consolidated Chippewa Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * Crow Wing Indian Subagency (Minnesota)
 * Fond du Lac Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * Grand Portage Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * Great Lakes Indian Agency (Wisconsin)
 * La Pointe Indian Agency (Wisconsin)
 * Leech Lake Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * St. Peters Indian Agency (Minnesota)-- part of St. Peters Agency
 * Milk River Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * Minnesota Indian Agency (Minnesota) Route 3, P.O. Box 112,Cass Lake, MN 56633
 * Nett Lake Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * Pipestone Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * Red Lake Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * Sandy Lake Indian Subagency (Minnesota)
 * St. Peters Indian Agency (Minnesota)1824-1879
 * Vermillion Lake Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * White Earth Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * Winnebago Indian Agency (Minnesota)
 * Minnesota Superintendency 1849-1856

Reservations in Minnesota
OLD INFORMATION The following list of reservations has been compiled from the National Atlas of the United States of America, the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America , and other sources. Some reservations are federally-recognized reservations, with their associated agency and tribe(s). Others have historically been associated with the state or are not currently recognized by the federal government.


 * Bois Fort Indian Reservation (Minnesota)1866 (Chippewa)
 * Chippewa Reservation: 1867
 * Dakota or Sioux Reservation: 1851-58 /1851-62
 * Deer Creek Indian Reservation (Minnesota)
 * Fond du Lac Indian Reservation (Minnesota) Federal, under jurisdiction of Minnesota Indian Agency(Minnesota) Tribe: Mississippi Band of Chippewa
 * Grand Portage Indian Reservation (Minnesota) Federal, under jurisdiction of Minnesota Agency, Tribe: Chippewa
 * Leech Lake Indian Reservation (Minnesota) 1855 Federal, under jurisdiction of Minnesota Agency, Tribe: Chippewa
 * Lower Sioux Reservation Federal, under jurisdiction of Minnesota Agency, Tribe: Eastern or Mississippi Sioux
 * Mdewakanton Indian Reservation (Minnesota)1884
 * Menominee Indian Reservation (Wisconsin) 1845-1845
 * Mille Lac Indian Reservation (Minnesota)1855-1889 Federal, under jurisdiction of Minnesota Agency, Tribe: Chippewa
 * Nett Lake Reservation Federal,under jurisdiction of Minnesota Agency, Tribe: Chippewa
 * Lower Sioux Community: (Sioux)
 * Ojibwa or Chippewa Reservation 1855-1864
 * Pipestone Reservation
 * Prairie Island Reservation Federal, under jurisdiction of Minnesota Sioux, Tribe: Eastern or Mississippi Sioux
 * Prior Lake Reservation Federal, under jurisdiction, Tribe: Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux
 * Red Lake Indian Reservation (Minnesota) 1863-1889 Federal, under jurisdiction of Red Lake Indian Agency (Minnesota) Tribe: Chippewa
 * Shakopee Mdewakanton: State, under jurisdiction of Minnesota Agency, Tribe: Shakopee Sioux
 * Sioux Reservation: 1851-1858
 * Vermilion Lake Indian Reservation (Minnesota) 1881
 * Upper Sioux Reservation: Federal, under jurisdiction of Minnesota Sioux, Tribe: Eastern or Mississippi Sioux
 * Wabasha Reservation:in Wabasha County, Minnesota
 * White Earth Indian Reservation (Minnesota) under jurisdiction of Minnesota Agency, Tribe: Chippewa
 * White Oak Point Indian Reservation (Minnesota)
 * Winnebago Reservation 1846-1855 (Houston County)

Minnesota Indian Schools
(OPTIONAL HEADING)  Indian Schools Currently Open: Historical Schools: The following list of Indian Schools in Minnesota has been compiled from Hill's Office of Indian Affairs..., Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives Relating to American Indians , and others.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) Mission Stations 1830-1840: Lac qui Aprle, Traverse des Sioux, Shakopee's Village, Oak Grove, Mendota, Little Crow's Village, and red Wing's Village in Minnesota.
 * Bena School
 * Bishop Whipple Indian School - Norton, MN
 * Birch Coulee Day School
 * Cass Lake Indian School (Minnesota)
 * Grand Portage Indian School (Minnesota)
 * Leech Lake Indian Boarding School (Minnesota)
 * Minnesota Agency School census 1912-1917, 1946-1947 and permanent school census cards Family History Library
 * Morris Industrial School
 * Nett Lake Indian School (Minnesota)
 * Pipestone Indian Boarding School
 * Pleasant Nook-Granite Falls,MN
 * Prairie Island - Egglston, MN
 * Red Lake Agency school - census 1922-1927
 * Squaw Point Day School (Minnesota)
 * Vermillion Lake School

Missions in Minnesota
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Indian Health Agencies in Minnesota
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Minnesota Map of Indian Lands
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Minnesota Native Americans Historical Background
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Archives

 * Glenbow Library and Archives University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Phone: 403-220-8895 Website

Libraries

 * FamilySearch Online Catalog
 * Glenbow Library and Archives University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Phone: 403-220-8895 Website

Museums
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Societies

 * Minnesota Historical Society 345 W. Kellogg Blvd. St. Paul, MN 55102 Phone: 651-259-3000 or 1-800-657-3773 Website

Other Repositories
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For Further Reading

 * Trail of Tears Minnesota's Dakota Indian Exile Begins. Mary H. Bakeman and Antona M. Richardson. Paririe Echoes Park Genealogical Books, Roseville,MN C 2008. FHL book 977.6 H2bm
 * "Accompanying Pamphlet for Microcopy 1011", National Archives Microfilm Publications, Appendix.
 * American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998.
 * Hill, Edward E. (comp.). Guide to Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to American Indians. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1981.
 * Hill, Edward E. The Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880: Historical Sketches. New York, New York: Clearwater Publishing Company, Inc., 1974.
 * Historical Sketches for Jurisdictional and Subject Headings Used for the Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880. National Archives Microcopy T1105.
 * Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington D.C.:Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #30 1907. Available online.
 * Isaacs. Katherine M., editor. Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America. U.S. Data Sourcebook, Volume 11 Appendices, Bureau of Indian Affairs List of American Indian Reservations, Appendix E, Indian Reservations. Omnigraphics, Inc., 1991.
 * National Atlas of the United States of America -- Federal Lands and Indian Reservations Available online.
 * Preliminary Inventory No. 163: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Services. Available online.
 * Swanton John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #145 Available online.

OLD INFO TO SORT
The following list of Native Americans who have lived in Minnesota has been compiled from Hodge's Handbook of American Indians... and from Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America. Some may simply be variant spellings for the same tribe.


 * Arapaho Indians
 * Cheyenne Indians
 * Chippewa IndiansChippewa or Ojibwa
 * Dakota
 * Fox
 * Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
 * Missouri
 * Omaha Indians
 * Oto Indians
 * Ottawa Indians
 * Ponca Tribe
 * Sauk
 * Winnebago Indians
 * Wyandot Indians

Chippewa Bands:


 * Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians
 * Cass Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
 * Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota
 * Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota
 * Lake Winnibigoshish Band of Chippewa Indians
 * Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota
 * Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians
 * Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians
 * Rainy Lake
 * Snake River
 * White Oak Point Band of Chippewa Indians

Family History Library
The Family History Library has many Native American records from the National Archives - Central Plains Region (Kansas City, Missouri). For the Ojibwa, for instance, microfilms of census, vital, land, and family records are available from 1876 to 1955. Additional sources are at the Minnesota Historical Society Library, including:


 * Records of the Minnesota Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849-1856. M842. There are 9 microfilms in the Family History Library starting with 1618093


 * Powell, Ransom Judd. Papers, Undated and 1843, 1896–1938. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society, 1987. No circulation to Family History Centers. Papers include genealogies, censuses, correspondence, and other records collected by the lawyer for lumber companies that bought White Earth Reservation land. A research study of one Ojibwa family from Minnesota’s White Earth reservation is in:


 * Byers, Paula K., ed. Native American Genealogical Sourcebook. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1995. It includes chapters on historical background, research methods and sources, and libraries and archives holding genealogical information on Native Americans. The case study reported on pages 54–64 uses records mostly dating between 1885 and 1915 to trace ancestors and descendants of one Ojibwa family. Records used include Indian censuses, United States censuses, Chippewa Commission and Chippewa Agency records, and the Ransom Judd Powell papers. A bibliography of sources for further study on Minnesota Indians is provided. Other books include:


 * Ebbott, Elizabeth. Indians in Minnesota. 4th ed. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1985. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Minnesota, this book deals mainly with social strengths and economic problems of American Indians in modern-day Minnesota. Preliminary chapters give histories of major Indian groups in the state and shifting government policies toward them. Includes maps and tables showing the locations of Indian groups on and off reservations in 1980. Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minnesota). Chippewa and Dakota Indians: A Subject Catalog of Books, Pamphlets, Periodical Articles, and Manuscripts in the Minnesota Historical Society. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society, 1969. A list of printed and manuscript sources on Minnesota’s two major tribes. Much new material has been added to the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society since this book was published. See also the chapter on "The Dakota and Ojibwa" in They Chose Minnesota, described in the "Minorities" article. For sources on the Sioux War of 1862, see the "Military Records" article. Steps to effective research are listed in the "United States Native Races" article.

Records of the various tribes can be found by looking under the name of the tribe in the Subject Search of the FamilySearch Catalog and under "Indians of North America – Minnesota." Many of the records are also listed in the Place Search of the catalog under:

MINNESOTA – NATIVE RACES


 * Records of the United States attorneys and marshal for the District of Minnesota, 1889-1917 which include land allotments for the White Earth Chippewas and genealogical charts connected with those allotments. There are 7 microfilms starting with film 1294074. (NARA record group 118 roll 22)