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English: A series of United States Indian reservation locator maps, constructed mostly with Tiger/LINE and BIA open data, with supplements from the Canadian and Mexican censuses. Generated on July 24, 2019.
Leech Lake (translated from the Ojibwe language Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag: Lake abundant with bloodsuckers) is a lake located in north central Minnesota, United States. It is southeast of Bemidji , located mainly within the Leech Lake Indian Reservation , and completely within the Chippewa National Forest .
Ojibwa women in canoe, Leech Lake. The Forest was established as the Minnesota Forest Reserve on 27 June 1902, with the passage of the Morris Act. [2] While this act mainly addressed the disposition of unallotted lands on Ojibwe Indian reservations in Minnesota, 200,000 acres (810 km 2) of the Chippewas of the Mississippi, Cass Lake, Leech Lake, and Winnibigoshish Indian reservations were ...
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is the first tribe to open a dispensary this year, but more are on the horizon. ... The sale of recreational cannabis remains restricted on non-native land as the ...
With the opening of state-licensed marijuana dispensaries still months away, several of Minnesota's tribal nations have stepped in to meet the demand from consumers eager to purchase cannabis legally.
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The Leech Lake Reservation has a significant non-native population due in part to the allotment and sale of reservation lands in the late nineteenth century. In 2020, the racial makeup of the reservation was 49.3% White , 43.8% Native American , 0.1% Black or African American , 0.1% Asian , 0.4% from other races , and 6.3% from two or more races.
The Leech Lake Indian Agency was established by an Act of Congress, approved March 1, 1899, and $15,000 appropriated for constructing the suitable buildings and related work. [ 4 ] The Leech Lake Agency was moved to Cass Lake, Minnesota, in 1922, but the village itself persisted and the Onigum Council was organized and chartered in 1924.