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The St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin (or the St. Croix Band for short) are a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people located in Northwest Wisconsin, along the St. Croix River valley and watershed. The band had 1,054 members as of 2010. [1]
According to Native American historian William W. Warren, Anishinaabe people were living in northern Wisconsin before 1492 and the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean area. The Dakota Indians referred to the Anishinaabe as the Ra-ra-to-oans, which means "People of the Falls." The French adopted the name.
Spooner is a city in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States.The population was 2,573 at the 2020 census.The city is located mostly within the southwest corner of the Town of Spooner, with a small portion extending into the Town of Beaver Brook on the south, the Town of Bashaw on the southwest, and the Town of Evergreen on the west.
This enabled the people to stay in this territory rather than to be forced west of the Mississippi River, as the government had attempted. Under the treaty, bands with reservations have been federally recognized as independent tribes; several retain Lake Superior Chippewa in their formal names to indicate their shared culture.
For one of the state’s preeminent experts on ancient Indigenous mounds, it made sense to Kurt Sampson to help write a book about the subject, focusing on a mound-rich region in Wisconsin.
The population density was 35.9 people per square mile (13.9/km 2). There were 383 housing units at an average density of 20.3 per square mile (7.8/km 2 ). The racial makeup of the town was 96.31% White , 0.74% Black or African American , 1.18% Native American , 0.59% Asian , and 1.18% from two or more races. 1.03% of the population were ...
Native American tribes in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, in the western Great Lakes region. See also: Category:Native American history of Wisconsin Subcategories
Frank Vaisvilas is a former Report for America corps member who covers Native American issues in Wisconsin based at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Contact him at fvaisvilas@gannett.com or 815-260 ...