Becker County, Minnesota
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Becker County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,183. Its county seat is Detroit Lakes. Part of the White Earth Indian Reservation extends into the county. The county was created in 1858 and organized in 1871.
1913 Prairie School Carnegie library designed by Claude and Starck in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.
Soils of Callaway WMA area
A country road in Becker County in summer
The County Public Works Center for Becker County in Detroit Lakes
The White Earth Indian Reservation is home to the White Earth Band, in northwestern Minnesota. It is the largest Indian reservation in the state by land area. The reservation includes all of Mahnomen County, plus parts of Becker and Clearwater counties in the northwest part of the state along the Wild Rice and White Earth rivers. The reservation's land area is 1,093 square miles (2,830 km2). The population was 9,726 as of the 2020 census, including off-reservation trust land. The White Earth Indian Reservation is one of six bands that make up the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, their governing body for major administrative needs. It is about 225 miles (362 km) from Minneapolis–Saint Paul and roughly 65 miles (105 km) from Fargo–Moorhead.
Tomahawk pipe, Southwestern Chippewa, collected on the White Earth Reservation, Minnesota in 1889 – Native American collection – Peabody Museum, Harvard University – DSC05805
The Chippewa of G Company 9th Minnesota prior to going south in 1863.
Family and goods in a wagon on the White Earth Reservation, 1934
"One Called From A Distance" (Midwewinind) of the White Earth Band, wearing a beaded sash and vest, 1894