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According to Native American historian William W. Warren, Anishinaabe people were living in northern Wisconsin before 1492 and the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean area. The Dakota Indians referred to the Anishinaabe as the Ra-ra-to-oans, which means "People of the Falls." The French adopted the name.
Spooner is a city in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States.The population was 2,573 at the 2020 census.The city is located mostly within the southwest corner of the Town of Spooner, with a small portion extending into the Town of Beaver Brook on the south, the Town of Bashaw on the southwest, and the Town of Evergreen on the west.
The area was the site of the 1806 Battle of Mole Lake between Chippewa and Sioux warriors.. The constitution and by-laws of the Sokaogon Chippewa Community were approved November 9, 1938, and the charter was approved October 7, 1939 as part of the Indian Reorganization Act.
Spooner is a town in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 677 at the 2000 census. The population was 677 at the 2000 census. The City of Spooner is located mostly within the southwest corner of the town.
For one of the state’s preeminent experts on ancient Indigenous mounds, it made sense to Kurt Sampson to help write a book about the subject, focusing on a mound-rich region in Wisconsin.
This enabled the people to stay in this territory rather than to be forced west of the Mississippi River, as the government had attempted. Under the treaty, bands with reservations have been federally recognized as independent tribes; several retain Lake Superior Chippewa in their formal names to indicate their shared culture.
The people listed below were born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Spooner, Wisconsin. Pages in category "People from Spooner, Wisconsin" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin (or the St. Croix Band for short) are a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people located in Northwest Wisconsin, along the St. Croix River valley and watershed. The band had 1,054 members as of 2010. [1]