Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Gichi Onigaming
"The great carrying place"
The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is a federally recognized, sovereign Ojibwe tribal government located at the tip of Minnesota and bordered on the north by Canada, on the south and east by Lake Superior, and on the west by Grand Portage State Forest.
Website
Headquarters
Tribal Government Center
- PO Box 428
83 Stevens Road
Grand Portage, MN 55605 - 218-475-2453
Government structure
- Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Constitution
- Five elected council members
- Chairperson
- Secretary/Treasurer
- Three Council Members
- Staggered elections held even years, second Tuesday in June, four year terms
Council
- Chairman: Robert “Bobby” Deschampe
- Secretary/Treasurer: April McCormick
- Committee Person: Toby Stephens
- Committee Person: Marie Spry
- Committee Person: Agatha Armstrong
Geography and demography
- Size: 47,613 acres
- Citizenship: 1,100+ enrolled members
- Counties: Cook
- Government headquarters: Grand Portage
Communities
- Grand Portage, municipal: Tribal Government Center, Grand Portage Lodge & Casino, Grand Portage Trading Post, Ryden’s Gas, Grand Portage State Park (jointly managed by GP and MN), Grand Portage National Monument (managed by Nat’l Park Service), k-6 Oshki Ogimaag Community School
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