"People from where there is an abundance of white clay"), is a federally recognized Native American band in northwestern Minnesota.
[1] The White Earth Nation was formed by joining multiple Chippewa bands from north central Minnesota.
They had been displaced by European-American settlement and consolidated onto a reservation in Mahnomen, Becker, and Clearwater Counties.
Six Minnesota Chippewa bands enroll members separately today, but they combine numbers when identifying the entire tribe.
The tribe was involved in a case about how much compensation the descendants of the Pembina Chippewa should receive from the taking of land by the U.S. government during the early 1800s.