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Lac Vieux Desert is a lake in the United States divided between Gogebic County, Michigan, and Vilas County, Wisconsin. [1] Fed primarily by springs in the surrounding swamps, it is the source of the Wisconsin River , which flows out of its southwest corner.
Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (or the Gete-gitigaaning in the Anishinaabe language) is a federally recognized band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, many of whom reside on the Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation, located near Watersmeet, Michigan. It is approximately 45 miles southeast of Ironwood, Michigan in Gogebic County.
The 2020 census results may be inaccurate for places like the Lac Vieux Desert Reservation owing to the Census Bureau's implementation of differential privacy protections. [3] [4] Of the total reservation population, 205 people were living on the northern section in the unincorporated community of Watersmeet, Michigan.
Vilas County has more lakes than any other county in Wisconsin, [1] with 563 named and 755 unnamed lakes covering 93,889 acres. Lac Vieux Desert near Phelps, at 4017 acres, is the largest.
The 1854 Treaty of La Pointe attempted to consolidate multiple groups of Ojibwe, but the Lac Vieux Desert Band organized to purchase the land around Rice bay from the government, one parcel at a time. By the 1870s, wild rice harvesting was once more taking place at Rice Bay, and year-round occupancy of Ketegitigaaning began in the 1880s.
The Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation was established by treaty under the United States in 1854. The Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, part of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians, have occupied this territory since the 17th century. The band owns and operates a resort on the reservation, which includes a casino and golf ...
The island is one of two inhabited islands in Lac Vieux Desert, the other being Duck Island, Wisconsin. Sometimes shown on older maps as Koch Island or Oak Island and locally as Rose Island [1] the current name was designated official by the Board on Geographic Names Decisions of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1962. [2]
Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation; Leech Lake Indian Reservation; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians; M.