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21 Indian casinos across 17 counties

Minnesota has 21 Indian casinos, which are authorized and regulated by the U.S. Interior Department. The casinos are owned by 11 federally-recognized Minnesota tribes and located in 17 different counties across the state.

There are also 21 smaller Indian gaming businesses located on tribal reservations. These include fuel stations, markets, bingo halls, trading posts and others. All have small gambling operations such as slot machines, pull tabs, etc.

Leech Lake Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe owns the most casinos with four.

White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe owns three casinos and 19 small Indian gaming locations.

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1. BELTRAMI COUNTY

Seven Clans Casino Red Lake
(Formerly Red Lake Casino & Bingo)
Highway 1 East
Red Lake, Minnesota 56671
888-679-2501
218-679-2500

2. CARLTON COUNTY

Black Bear Casino
1785 Highway 210
Carlton, MN
55718-0777

3. CASS COUNTY

Northern Lights Casino
680 Y Frontage road NW
Walker, MN 56484
800-252-PLAY

Palace Casino & Hotel
6280 Upper Cass Frontage Rd NW
Cass Lake, MN 56633
877-9-PALACE

Shingobee on the Bay
6280 Upper Cass Frontage Rd NW
Cass Lake, MN 56633
Phone Number: (218) 547-6233

16. CLEARWATER COUNTY

Shooting Star Casino Bagley
County Highway 27
Between Ebro and Bagley, MN

4. COOK COUNTY

Grand Portage Lodge & Casino
80 Casino Drive
Grand Portage, Minnesota 55605-0233
800-543-1384
218-475-2401

Grand Portage Trading Post Casino
77 Mile Creek Road
Grand portage, MN 55605

5. GOODHUE COUNTY

Treasure Island Casino
5734 Sturgeon Lake Road
Welch, MN 55089
800-222-7077

6. ITASCA COUNTY

White Oak Casino
45830 US Highway 2
Deer River, MN 56636
800-653-2412
218-246-9600

7. MAHNOMEN COUNTY

Shooting Star Casino Hotel
777 Casino Road
Mahnomen, MN 56557-7902
800-453-7827
218-935-2711
Casino (800) 453-STAR
Bingo (218) 935-5385

8. MILLE LACS COUNTY

Grand Casino Mille Lacs
777 Grand Avenue
Onamia, MN 56359
800-626-5825

17. OTTER TAIL COUNTY

Star Lake Casino (Canceled)
County Road 41
Star Lake near Dent, MN

9. PENNINGTON COUNTY

Seven Clans Casino Thief River Falls
(Formerly River Road Casino)
20595 Center Street East
Thief River Falls, MN 56701
866-255-7848

10. PINE COUNTY

Grand Casino Hinckley
777 Lady Luck Drive
Hinckley, MN 55037
800-472-6321

11. RENVILLE COUNTY

Jackpot Junction Casino Hotel
39375 County Hwy 24
Morton, MN 56270
800-WIN CASH
800-946-2274

12. ROSEAU COUNTY

Seven Clans Casino Warroad
(Formerly Lake of the Woods Casino & Bingo)
1012 East Lake Street
Warroad, Minnesota 56763-2404
(800) 815-8293
(218) 386-3381

13. SCOTT COUNTY

Little Six Casino
2450 Sioux Trail NW
Prior Lake, MN 55372
(952) 445-6000

Mystic Lake Casino Hotel
2400 Mystic Lake Blvd
Prior Lake MN 55372
(800) 262-7799
(952) 445-9000

14. ST. LOUIS COUNTY

Fond Du Luth Casino
129 East Superior Street
Duluth, MN 55802
800-873-0280
218-722-0280

Fortune Bay Resort & Casino
1430 Bois Forte Road
Tower, MN 55790
800-992-PLAY (7529)

15. YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY

Prairie's Edge Casino Resort
5616 Prairie's Edge Lane
Granite Falls, MN 56241
320-564-2121
866-293-2121

Prairies Edge Convenience Store
Non-Smoking Casino
5610 Prairie's Edge Lane
Granite Falls, MN 56241
Phone Number: (320) 564-2121

Small Indian Gaming Operations

The following businesses are all owned by the White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Mahnomen MN 56557 Phone Number: (218) 983-3285.

In addition to these, there is the Grand Portage Trading Post Casino and the Prairies Edge Convenience Store.

3 Bears Golf, Liquor Store & Towing
DBA Berry's Liquor
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Cedar Crest Resort
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

City of Callaway
DBA Callaway Liquor Store
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

City of Mahnomen
DBA Wild Rice Lounge
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Double Barrel, LLC
DBA Ruffed Grouse Roadhouse
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Golden Eagle Bingo
P.O Box 418
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2711

Hilltop Supper Club
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Isaacson-Bjorge Post 31 American Legion/Mahnomeh
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Loon Echo Inc
DBA Elbow Lake Store & Bar
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

M & W Foods Ogema
PO Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 983-3285

M & W Service of White Earth
PO Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

McArthur's Village Store, Inc.
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

MDS Food and Beverage, Inc.
DBA Lean to Tavern
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Northwood's Recreation, LLC
DBA Ice Cracking Lodge
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Ogema Fire Department
DBA Ogema Liquor Store
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Pappy's Cafe and Pizzeria
PO Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Pinehurst Resort and Lodge, Inc.
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Stumps Bar & Grill, LLC
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

Waubun Fire Relief
P.O. Box 395
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone Number: (218) 935-2148

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Minnesota Tribes Oppose Sports Betting Legislation

January 18, 2019

Last week the chairmain of the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association, Charles Vig, wrote a letter to top government officials regarding sports betting in this year's legislative session.

The Minnesota Indian Gaming Association supports responsible gambling. Its membership includes all 11 federally-recognized Minnesota tribes.

The letter states the official position of the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association and its members is the continued opposition to the expansion of off-reservation gambling, inclding the legalization of sports betting.

The letter was delivered to Gov. Tim Walz, Speaker Melissa Hortman, House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka and Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk.

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Bad River Lapointe Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians

Total population
7,000 (2000)[1]
Regions with significant populations
United States (Wisconsin)
Languages
English, Ojibwe
Religion
Catholicism, Methodism, Midewiwin
Related ethnic groups
other Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi

The Bad River LaPointe Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians are a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people. The Bad River Reservation is located on the south shore of Lake Superior and has a land area of 156,000 acres (244 sq mi; 630 km²) in northern Wisconsin straddling Ashland and Iron counties. The tribe has approximately 7,000 members, of whom about 1,800 lived on the reservation during the 2000 census.^[1]

Most people live in one of four communities: Odanah, Diaperville (also called Old Odanah),^[2]Birch Hill, or Frank's Field/Aspen Estates.^[3] Odanah, the administrative and cultural center, is located five miles (8.0 km) east of the town of Ashland on U.S. Highway 2. New Odanah is also located on the reservation. Over 90% of the reservation is undeveloped land.

History[edit]

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According to Anishinaabe prophecy, Gichi Manidoo, the Great Spirit, told the Anishinaabe people to move west from the Atlantic coast until they found the 'food that grows on water.'^[4] After a series of stops and divisions, the branch of Anishinaabe known as the Lake Superior Chippewa found wild rice near the Chequamegon Bay on the south shore of Lake Superior, at the site of the present-day Bad River Lapointe Reservation. They made their final stopping place at nearby Madeline Island.

After the 17th century, Anishinaabe people settled throughout northern Wisconsin into lands formerly disputed with the Dakota Sioux and the Meskwaki. Those that remained near the trading post of La Pointe on Madeline Island were known collectively as the La Pointe Band; they engaged in the fur trade with neighboring French-Canadian settlers. They also pursued other seasonal occupations such as berry-picking, harvesting maple sugar, fishing, ricing, hunting, and gathering nuts, roots and medicinal plants.

After a disastrous attempt at removing the Lake Superior Bands in the 19th century, which resulted in the Sandy Lake Tragedy, the U.S. government agreed to set up permanent reservations in Wisconsin. At this point, the La Pointe band split: members who had converted to Roman Catholicism were led by Kechewaishke (Chief Buffalo) and took a reservation at Red Cliff. Those who maintained traditional Midewiwin beliefs settled at Bad River. The two bands, however, maintain close relations to this day.

The reservation land was set aside for the Bad River Lapointe Band in the Treaty of La Pointe, made with the United States and signed on Madeline Island on September 30, 1854. The treaty land included almost 2,000 acres (3.1 sq mi; 8.1 km²) on Madeline Island, which is considered the center of the Ojibwe Nation. The band is one of six federally recognized tribes in present-day Wisconsin.

During the late 19th century, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration set up St. Mary's School in Odanah, an Indian boarding school. Students came from a variety of tribes to learn English and western topics, as well as Christianity. During this period, timber companies on the reservation leased land for lumbering, but they cheated the tribe and destroyed much of the land by overlogging. During the Allotment period, the tribe leased almost half its land base, which originally covered all the area of modern-day Ashland, Wisconsin.

Revival of sovereignty[edit]

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As Lake Superior Ojibwe, the Bad River Lapointe Band retains its rights to hunt, fish, gather wild rice, and medicinal plants over the ceded territory of northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. The tribe pressed these claims throughout the 20th century. Tribal members from Bad River and the other Lake Superior bands resumed their traditional practice of spear fishing, resulting in the Wisconsin Walleye War with recreational and sports fishermen.

In 1996, a group of Ojibwe activists known as the Anishinaabe Ogitchidablocked a railroad shipment of sulfuric acid from crossing the reservation; it was destined for a copper mine in Michigan. The protestors complained the acid posed an environmental danger to reservation lands and the Lake Superior watershed. The national attention brought by the protests forced the Environmental Protection Agency to stop the use of acid in the mine.^[5]

Sixteen thousand acres (25 sq mi; 65 km²) of the reservation are high-quality wetlands due the Kakagon River and Bad Riversloughs, registered by the United States government under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance. The wetlands are ideal for the cultivation of wild rice, the historical crop of the Ojibwe. The sloughs constitute the only remaining extensive coastal wild rice marsh in the Great Lakes region. Due to its habitat and proximity to Madeline Island, Bad River is of major importance to the Ojibwe Nation. People from all over Ojibwe Country come for the annual August Celebration of the manoomin, or wild rice harvest.

The headquarters of the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) is on the Bad River Reservation. The tribe also owns and operates a fish hatchery, which stocks local rivers and lakes with 15 million walleye annually.

The Bad River Band Of Lapoint Ojibwe own and operate a casino, as well as the Moccasin Trail gas station and grocery store complex. The Tribe also runs a clinic, local transit, tribal school, daycare, and Head Start, as well as a police and volunteer fire department for its people. It has several community facilities: a tribal fire hall and youth center in the Birch Hill community, and a utility garage in the Franks Field community.

In 2014, the Tribe announced it will not renew the lease of 18 non-native people's land lease, on Madeline Island, known as the Amnicon Bay Association. The 50-year lease, which began in 1967, ended in August 2017.^[6]

Topography[edit]

Bad River Reservation is nearly entirely covered by a forest and swamps. In Anishinaabemowin, they called the Anishinaabe people who lived around swamps Omashkiigowag ('Swampy people'), from mashkiig meaning 'swamp'. The people also go by Mashkigonaabeg, which means 'Swampy-men:, where the suffix -naabe is 'male' or 'man' in the Anishinaabe language.

On the northern border of the Reservation, the elevation tends to be between 600 and 700 feet (180 and 210 m) above sea level. Southwards the elevation increases to between 700 and 1,100 feet (210 and 340 m) above sea level. Scattered across the reservation are many small lakes.

Climate[edit]

Bad River Reservation has extreme climate conditions. Winters are long and cold, while summers are short and warm. The climate is largely affected by Lake Superior. Low temperatures during the cold winter months tend to average slightly above 0 °F (−18 °C). High temperatures during the cold winter months average above 20 °F (−7 °C). Average low temperatures during the summer months are near 50 and 55 °F (10 and 13 °C). Average high temperatures during the summer months are between 74 and 80 °F (23 and 27 °C). Precipitation is significant as a result of the extensive forest and Lake Superior. Average yearly precipitation is around 30 inches (760 mm).

Notes[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin'. United States Census Bureau.
2. ^Watindato, Elizabeth Arbuckle (March 12, 2007). 'Tribal Members: A Surprising Diverse Group'(PDF). Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin–Madison. p. 6. Archived from the original(PDF) on December 9, 2011.
3. ^'History of Bad River Band of the Lake Superior of Chippewa Indians'.
4. ^Tigerman 2006, p. 95
5. ^Grossman, Zoltan (October 1996). 'Chippewa Block Acid Shipments: The Anishinaabe Ogitchida Group, Protectors of the People, Fight Against Transport of 550 Mil Gal of Sulphuric Acid for a Copper Mining Recovery Project'. The Progressive. Retrieved July 31, 2010 – via CBS Interactive Business Network.
6. ^'Bad River Ojibwe Tribe Reclaims Amnicon Bay - Indian Country Media Network'. indiancountrymedianetwork.com. Retrieved October 17, 2017.

References[edit]

• Loew, Patty (2001). Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
• Tigerman, Kathleen (2006). Wisconsin Indian Literature: Anthology of Native Voices. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN978-0-299-22064-8.

External links[edit]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bad River Indian Reservation.

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• Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians, official website
• A Brief Bad River History/Description at the Wayback Machine (archived 2005-02-04)
• Current news in Bad River at Archive.today (archived 2013-09-11)

Coordinates: 46°31′52″N90°40′31″W / 46.53111°N 90.67528°W