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Lac Vieux Desert has a surface elevation 1,680 ft (510 m) [3] above sea level, and a maximum depth of about 40 ft (12 m). The surface area is 4,260 acres (17.24 km 2 ; 6.66 sq mi), of which approximately two-thirds is in Wisconsin and one third in Michigan.
GLIFWC's policy is set by the Board of Commissioners composed of the tribal chairperson from each member tribe or a designee. Two standing committees, the Voigt Intertribal Task Force and the Great Lakes Fisheries Committee, make recommendations on resource management policies to the board. [1]
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.
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 signatory tribes retain hunting, fishing and gathering right within this region. The portions left unceded were given claims to the Mississippi Ojibwe. The Indian reservations established under this treaty are: L'Anse with Lac Vieux Desert; Bad River; Lac du Flambeau and Lac Courte Oreilles; Fond du Lac; Grand Portage; Ontonagon and Red Cliff
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.
The final treaty in 1854 established permanent reservations in Michigan at L'Anse, Lac Vieux Desert, and Ontonagon. In 1934 under the Indian Reorganization Act, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community was defined as successor apparent to the L'Anse, Lac Vieux Desert, and Ontonagon bands. Government functions were centralized with it, although all ...
The Ontonagon Indian Reservation is the homeland of a branch of the Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe.Its twelve bands were located throughout Michigan and the Upper Midwest. ...