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Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation . The turtle mountain agency is located in the community of belcourt, north dakota, which is geographically located in the far north central part of the state, approximately 10 miles southeast of the international peace garden. I have lived in dickinson, north dakota for about seven years now. Landowners from Turtle Mountain Band see nearly 18M in from www.indianz.com The reservation is near the geographical center on north america in north central north dakota, ten miles south of the canadian border. The problem is the indians of those reservations except turtle mountain, will not accept being chippewa. The spirit lake nation, turtle mountain band of chippewa indians and individual native voters challenged the map under section 2 of the voting rights act.

Turtle Mountain Landslide . The 30 m m3 rockslide that occurred on the east face of turtle mountain in the crowsnest pass area (alberta) in 1903 is one of the most famous landslides in the world. In 100 seconds, at least 76 people were buried alive under 82 million metric tonnes of massive limestone boulders. Canadian Fatal Landslides Mapped from www.nrcan.gc.ca Turtle mountain is the location of the april 29, 1903, frank slide. Excessive amounts of coal were removed from the mountain without adequate protection from overlying layers of rock. In the middle of the night on april 29th, 1903, a 3,280 foot wide, 1,400 foot high and 500 foot deep slab of rock seperated from turtle mountain and crashed down onto the town of frank.