Chippewa Tribe bands continue to enroll members separately, but also combine their numbers for the entire tribe. According to the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, the White Earth Band had 19,291 enrolled members in July 2007. It is the largest of the six bands in the Tribe, and the largest of any band in the state. 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. The third and final settlement payment in 2022 of $59 million was split among the tribe, the Little Shell Chippewa, the Chippewa Cree, and the Turtle Mountain Tribe of North Dakota along with the 39,000 individual beneficiaries. Previous settlements in the case were in 1964 and 1980. Notable citizens Kathleen Annette, physician, health administrator Clyde Bellecourt (White Earth Ojibwe), social activist Vernon Bellecourt, activist and early leader of the American Indian Movement, founded in Minneapolis Charles Albert Bender - athlete and baseball pitcher, elected in 1953 to Baseball Hall of Fame Peggy Flanagan, lieutenant governor and former Minnesota State Representative (D-46A) Joe Guyon - Professional Football Hall of Fame, College Football Hall of Fame Gordon Henry Jr., poet, writer Clara Sue Kidwell, Director of the American Indian Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Winona LaDuke, founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project in 1989, to purchase land for the tribe within the reservation boundaries, work for reforestation, and market traditional products, including wild rice; also two-time Green Party vice presidential nominee. Robert Lilligren, first American Indian tribal member to serve on the Minneapolis City Council Anne McKeig, attorney and judge, appointed in June 2016 as the first Native American on the Minnesota State Supreme Court Jean O'Brien, historian who specializes in northeastern Woodlands American Indian history. T. J. Oshie, National Hockey League player and member of the 2014 USA Olympic Men's Hockey team Charlie Roy, professional baseball player in 1906 Gerald Vizenor, scholar and writer Wabanquot (White Cloud), chief in the 19th century References Further reading External links White Earth Nation Bemaadizing: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Indigenous Life (An online journal) Eni–gikendaasoyang "Moving Towards Knowledge Together", Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Language Revitalization White Earth Tribal & Community College Ojibwe governments Native American tribes in Minnesota