Ball Club, Minnesota. Home to fishing the Mississippi River, Leech River, Ball Club River, Ball Club Lake, Chippewa National Forest. Hunting, Birding, plants and much more! To see where Ball Club, Minnesota is
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Ball Club, Minnesota is an outdoor recreational extraordinaire. It is in the Arrow Head region and 1000 Lakes region of North Central Minnesota on the Leech Lake band of Ojibwe Native American Nation of sovernce, the West Central edge of Itasca County, Chippewa National Forest.
The Ball Club population is mostly Ojibwa Native Americans. Ball Club, MN. has a Community Center with the Ball Club Clinic of medicine, Leech Lake HEADSTART, weekday recreational center, Summer lunch program, WIC and other family and community based activities. 50 yards North is a building where the Ball Club Precinct voters can vote their peace.
July brings the festival Migwitch Mahnomen (Thankyou Wild Rice) to the Ball Club powwow grounds. This year July 18-20, 2008 . The powwow grounds are right next to the community center (NORTH) and considered the Heart of Ball Club. Dance and eat here as you never did before, even if you were here last year. The pride I feel when I and my family go to powwow, I think can be explained by this link. Ni-mi-day-win:
Come and Dance, Come and Sing -- Living and Spirit Alike. An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Buffalo, Anishinabe/Chippewa/Ojibwa Elder, Leech Lake Minnesota. Photographer: Tim Roufs.
The Mississippi River flows through Ball Club and its source is less than 60 miles (52 nautical miles) as the crow flies. Yet by the time the Mississippi reaches Ball Club, it has already put on 130 river miles. Some places its less than 10 feet across and very swift, other places less than 3 feet deep and if your like me, you could have a whole in your pocket, loose your car keys in the river, retrace your foot-steps and find them!
