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Thief River Falls, sometimes referred to as Thief River or condensed as TRF, is a city in Pennington County in the northwest portion of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 8,749 at the 2020 census. Thief River Falls is the county chair for Pennington County.

Thief River Falls takes its say from a geographic feature, the falls of the Red Lake River at its confluence in the same way as the Thief River. The post of the river is a drifting translation of the Ojibwe phrase Gimood-akiwi ziibi, literally, the “Stolen-land river” or “Thieving-land river”, which originated in the same way as a band of Dakota Indians occupied a secret encampment along the river, hence “stealing” the land, before brute discovered and routed by the against Ojibwe. In the Treaty of Old Crossing of 1863, the Moose Dung’s Indian Reservation was established on the west bank of the Thief River, at its confluence in the broadcast of Red Lake River. This Indian Reservation was dissolved in 1904 and their population incorporated as share of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa.