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The Bad River Reservation is located on the south shore of Lake Superior and has a land area of about 193.11 square miles (500.15 km 2) in northern Wisconsin, straddling Ashland and Iron Counties. Odanah, the administrative and cultural center, is located 5 miles (8 km) east of the town of Ashland on U.S. Highway 2. The reservation population ...
Beginning about 1737, they competed for nearly 100 years with the Eastern Dakota and the Fox tribes in the interior of Wisconsin, west and south of Lake Superior. The Ojibwe were technologically more advanced, and acquired guns through trade with the French, which for a time gave them an advantage.
Off-reservation holdings are located across the state in Douglas County, in the northwest corner of Wisconsin. The total land area of these tribal lands is 154.49 square miles (400.1 km 2). [1] It is the land-base for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
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 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]
Map showing the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe land cession area of what now is Minnesota's portion of Lake Superior, Wisconsin and Michigan. The first treaty of La Pointe was signed by Robert Stuart for the United States and representatives of the Ojibwe Bands of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River on October 4, 1842 and proclaimed on March 23, 1843, encoded into the laws of the United States ...
Legendary Waters Resort and Casino. During the 20th century, commercial fishing in Lake Superior sustained many Red Cliff families. Despite the fact that the Ojibwe had reserved the rights to hunt, fish, and gather in treaties signed in Wisconsin Supreme Court case Gurnoe vs. Wisconsin (1972), the court found in favor of a Red Cliff tribal member upholding that the tribe reserved the right to ...
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 ...