> Your site is about Native Americans?
> But Dorothy Bronken is Norwegian.....? 
> Can you explain how she got here?

How she got there, is we typed the information that was on the copy of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (MCT) base rolls that someone had loaned us, sometime in the mid-1990s.

That copy of the MCT rolls was in the 'Indian community' because it had belonged to Floyd Sweet, who was one of the tribal officials at the time that the "Base Rolls" -- that form the basis for current Indian tribal enrollments -- were being compiled, between 1934 and 1936.

If you look at the notes for Dorothy Bronken, I think that she's listed with a "blood quantum" of 1/8.  Especially between 1890 and 1920, there was a lot of intermarriage between the Norwegian farmers who bought land on White Earth reservation, and "mixed bloods" - some of whom had a little bit of Indigenous ancestry, and some of whom were just put on the "Indian rolls" by some corrupt B.I.A. employees who were taking a 'cut' off of the sale of "Indian allotments."

Louis Hallett, a friend and neighbor, and great-grandson of White Earth Chief White Cloud, talked about how 'tribal enrollments' were being sold for $50 in the late 1800s, to people who wanted to get land (and the money from selling it) from an allotment at White Earth, and there is an interesting letter from 1910, online at maquah.net.

Even though Dorothy Bronken was an "enrolled Indian," at least on the unofficial base rolls, it's entirely possible that her mother or grandmother was one of those B.I.A. "halfbreeds" who were, as one Indigenous historian put it, "half Norwegian and half Swede."

If you're interested in pursuing Dorothy Bronken's roots, you might want to check the 1930 census for White Earth Indian reservation, and the B.I.A.'s official 1934-36 "Indian Rolls," which are on microfilm from the National Archives.  She might have also been enrolled on one of the other Minnesota Chippewa Tribe reservations, but White Earth is my 'best guess.'


Janet Eileen B. Jakobsson wrote:

I'm searching my family roots (Bronken) and came across your page, but I
don't understand what this means. Your site is about Native Americans?
But Dorothy Bronken is Norwegian.....? Can you explain how she got
here?

Thank you,
Janet Bronken


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Dorothy M. BRONKEN

Birth: 1908, enrolled in,Chippewa Tribe,Minnesota

Partnership with: (Unknown)

Child: Patricia L. BRONKEN Birth: 1933, enrolled in,Chippewa
Tribe,Minnesota


Notes for Dorothy M. BRONKEN
Descendants of Dorothy M. BRONKEN
1 Dorothy M. BRONKEN
  =(Unknown)
      2 Patricia L. BRONKEN