Minnesota Chippewa Tribe

Something was protecting our language.

A room full of irreplaceable Dakota language teaching materials survived a fire that devastated the offices around it inside the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe building in Minneapolis.

Fawn Youngbear Tibbetts directs a Dakota and Ojibwe language immersion preschool program with offices there.

She says the curriculum room that housed the Dakota language archives escaped damage even as the fire destroyed computers and other equipment.

Omar denies wrongdoing and calls the investigation political targeting.

An intertribal community feast will bring Native communities together after a devastating fire on Sunday severely damaged the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe building in Minneapolis.

The building housed urban offices for the Boys Fort Band of Ojibwe and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

The offices provided neighborhood support services like a food pantry to those in need.

Uh, we're learning about a fire in Minneapolis that took place yesterday that affected people there.

One of the buildings affected is the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe building.

And tribe here is a part of the name of the federally recognized entity, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

We often report on what happens to the six-member tribal nations that make up the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, but their relationship with the federal government for the purpose of policymaking is with the, the entity, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

So there are many words and phrases, tribe, band, and then names like Chippewa and Sioux, that while not, you know, th- that's not how people refer to themselves, these words are sort of baked in, uh, because they are the, the government names.

Yeah.

Um, we're learning about a fire in Minneapolis that took place yesterday that affected people there.

One of the buildings affected is the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe building, and tribe here is a part of the name of the federally recognized entity, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

We often report on what happens to the six-member tribal nations that make up the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, but the relationship with the federal government for the purpose of policymaking is with the, the entity, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

So there are many words and phrases, tribe, band, and then names like Chippewa and Sioux, that while not, you know, that's not how people refer to themselves.

These words are sort of baked in, uh, because they are the, the government names.

You just heard from Assistant Fire Chief Melanie Rucker, and part of the focus for crews was to make sure the fire did not spread to other buildings.

One neighboring building is the office for the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

It holds decades of Dakota and Ojibwe educational materials.

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