INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE SURVEY OF FORESTS AND FOREST RESOURCES OF THE TURTLE MOUNTAIN BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS OF NORTH DAKOTA.

Because of various external and internal factors and pressures, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians have seen significant changes and diminishment of their intangible cultural heritage throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries due to such factors as the establishment of the reservation system, the effects of Indian boarding schools, federal relocation policy, and other reasons.

The Turtle Mountain Tribal Historic Preservation Office, undertook an effort to survey intangible cultural heritage among the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians to assess and inventory intangible cultural heritage that presently survives and exists within the Turtle Mountain Chippewa community.