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Red Cliff, also known as Gaa-Miskwaabikaang, [2] is a Tribal Nation in the town of Russell, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] Red Cliff is the administrative center of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. [3] The reservation population is 1353, primarily Native American.
The Red Cliff Band established the Frog Bay Tribal National Park on the reservation in 2012. [10] It is the first tribal national park open to the public in the United States. [ 11 ] The park protects about 175 acres (0.71 km 2 ) of boreal forest, wetland, and undeveloped Lake Superior coastline.
The Bad River Reservation is located on the south shore of Lake Superior and has a land area of about 193.11 square miles (500.15 km 2) in northern Wisconsin, straddling Ashland and Iron counties. Odanah , the administrative and cultural center, is located five miles (8.0 km) east of the town of Ashland on U.S. Highway 2 .
Chief Buffalo was granted a tract for his family on the mainland just west of Madeline Island, in what is now known as the Red Cliff Indian Reservation. [10] On the eastern end of the island is an exclave of the Bad River Indian Reservation of approximately 195 acres (0.79 km 2).
There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos.
The Lac du Flambeau Reservation has a significant non-native population due in part to the allotment and sale of reservation lands in the early twentieth century. [14] The racial makeup of the reservation in 2020 was 58.6% Native American , 37.3% White , 0.2% Black or African American , 0.3% from other races , and 3.5% from two or more races.
High Cliff State Park is a 1,187-acre (480 ha) Wisconsin state park near Sherwood, Wisconsin.It is the only state-owned recreation area located on Lake Winnebago. [2] The park got its name from cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment, a land formation east of the shore of Lake Winnebago that stretches north through northeast Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, and Ontario to Niagara Falls and New York State.
Red Cliff; Lac Courte Oreilles; Bad River, Lac Vieux Desert, L'Anse; Ontonagon; and; Lac du Flambeau. The following year, by the Treaty of Washington (1855), the government created additional reservations in Minnesota. For the Pillager Chippewa: Leech Lake Indian Reservations: [5] Leech Lake; Cass Lake; and; Lake Winnibigoshish reservations.