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Big Sandy Lake is a lake in Aitkin County, Minnesota, approximately nine miles north of McGregor. The lake is considered fertile walleye ground with several habitat types, including the open main basin, the deep, cold eastern basin, and a shallow, more isolated south basin.
Big Sandy Lake [2] is a lake in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The lake is north-east of Narrow Hills Provincial Park at the eastern base of the Cub Hills in the Northern Administration District. It is situated in the Mid-Boreal Uplands Ecoregion in a boreal forest of pine, birch, aspen, and spruce. [3]
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The Sandy Lake Tragedy was the culmination in 1850 of a series of events centered in Big Sandy Lake, Minnesota that resulted in the deaths of several hundred Lake Superior Chippewa. Officials of the Zachary Taylor Administration and Minnesota Territory sought to relocate several bands of the tribe to areas west of the Mississippi River .
Due to last-minute changes in the annual annuity payments from a central region around La Pointe, Wisconsin, to not so central but as well known location of Sandy Lake in the fall of 1850, representatives from 19 Chippewa bands packed up and started an arduous journey to the shores of Sandy Lake, where they had been told to gather in late October for annual annuity payments and supplies.
The Prairie River (Big Sandy Lake) is a river of Minnesota. The river is located in northern Minnesota, in northeast Aitkin County and southwest Saint Louis County. Prairie River is the English translation of the native Ojibwe language name. [1]
Entrance to Davis Ranch in Big Sandy, Texas; the Davis Ranch Arena hosts annual rodeo events, including a barrel race in October. Big Sandy is a town in Upshur County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 1,231. [4] A lake of the same name is cut nearly in half by U.S. Highway 80, the main thoroughfare of Big ...
Sandy Lake First Nation (or ᓀᑲᣞ ᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᓃᐣᐠ, Negaw-zaaga'iganiing Nitam-Anishinaabe) is an independent Oji-Cree First Nations band government. The First Nations community, in the west part of Northern Ontario , is located in the Kenora District , 227 km (141 mi) northeast of Red Lake , Ontario .