The following month, World War I veterans were added and sent to their own camps, while some 14,000 American Indians also joined. In Minnesota, the CCC was active on the Dakota and Ojibwa ...

In less than one month, Minnesota’s first CCC-ID camp opened at Nett Lake. The Bureau of Indian Affairs administered the CCC-ID camps, instead of the U.S. Army, and provided work projects both ...

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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota has left a lasting legacy still seen today. At the height of the great depression, a program took shape to provide work for unemployed young men that ...