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The council is governed by the tribal constitution and by-laws, which were originally ratified in 1934 under the Indian Reorganization Act. The tribal headquarters is located on the Sand Lake Reservation Community, which is one mile (1.6 km) west of the unincorporated community of Hertel, Wisconsin.
The tribal reservation has a land area of 108.36 square miles (280.65 km 2), including the trust lands [3] and a population of 2,968 persons as of the 2020 census. [4] The most populous community is Little Round Lake, at the reservation's northwest corner. It is south of the non-reservation city of Hayward, the county seat of Sawyer County.
The St. Croix Chippewa Indians (Ojibwe language: Manoominikeshiinyag, the "Ricing Rails") are a historical Band of Ojibwe located along the St. Croix River, which forms the boundary between the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Turtle Lake is a village in Barron and Polk counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. [5] Its population was 1,037 at the 2020 census . Of these, 959 were in Barron County, [ 6 ] and 78 were in Polk County. [ 7 ]
In Wisconsin, reservations were established at Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac Courte Oreilles, and Lac du Flambeau. The St. Croix and Sokaogon bands, left out of the 1854 treaty, did not obtain tribal lands or federal recognition until the 1930s after the Indian Reorganization Act. In Minnesota, reservations were set up at Fond du Lac and Grand Portage.
Indian camp on Flambeau reservation. The ancestors of the Lac du Flambeau Band and other bands moved west from the Michigan area in the 17th century into the interior of Wisconsin west and south of Lake Superior. They were called the Waaswaaganininiwag (the "Torch Lake Men"). French fur traders named the band and lake for the Ojibwe practice of ...
Darlene Denny of Green Bay, a member of the Oneida Tribe, landed in a vendor business, eventually opening Turtle Island Gifts. ... At age 30, she felt called to return to Wisconsin.
The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians (Ojibwe language: Mikinaakwajiw-ininiwag) is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Ojibwe based on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota. The tribe has 30,000 enrolled members.