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The Normal School Fund was created in 1865 from the proceeds of half of the land grant conveyed to Wisconsin by Congress in the Swamp Land Act of 1850, after the Legislature determined not all of the swampland was needed for drainage purposes. The resulting land grant amounted to some 1,500,000 acres (2,300 sq mi) of public land, of which ...
The Lac Courte Oreille ceded land under a treaty they signed with the United States in 1837, the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe, and the first 1854 Treaty of La Pointe. 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 nation is actively seeking to reacquire more traditional land and place it into trust status. [12] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Ho-Chunk Nation reservation parcels totaled 3.46 square miles (8.96 km 2) in 2020, with an additional 12.57 square miles (32.56 km 2) of off-reservation trust land.
The community is based on the Forest County Potawatomi Indian Reservation, which consists of numerous non-contiguous plots of land in southern Forest County and northern Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States. The community also administers about 7 acres (28,000 m 2) of off-reservation trust land in the city of Milwaukee.
The Menominee Indian Reservation technically consists of both a 360.8 sq mi (934.5 km 2) Indian reservation in Menominee County, Wisconsin and an adjacent 1.96 sq mi (5.08 km 2) plot of off-reservation trust land encompassing Middle Village in the town of Red Springs, in Shawano County, Wisconsin. These areas are governed as a single unit for ...
They occupy land in Barron, Burnett, and Polk counties. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the band's combined reservation and off-reservation trust land have a total area of 3.81 square miles (9.86km 2), of which 3.71 square miles (9.6km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26km 2) is water. [2]
The band also had 2.16 square miles (5.6 km 2) of off-reservation trust land. [2] Including the community's additional fee land, the Sokaogon Chippewa Community managed a total of 4,904.2 acres (7.6628 sq mi; 19.847 km 2) as of 2010. The reservation includes land around Rice Lake, Bishop Lake, and Mole Lake. [1]
The Alliance performs a National Land Trust Census that keeps track of the land protected by local and regional land trusts. [10] The last [ when? ] Census, conducted in 2003, reported that these trusts have protected almost 9.4 million acres (38,000 km 2 ) of land in the United States , double the 4.7 million acres (19,000 km 2 ) recorded in ...