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United States. Surface area. 56,471.4 acres (22,853.2 ha) Max. depth. 69.8 ft (21.3 m) Lake Winnibigoshish is a body of water in north central Minnesota in the Chippewa National Forest. Its name comes from the Ojibwe language Wiinibiigoonzhish, a diminutive and pejorative form of Wiinibiig, meaning "filthy water" (i.e., "brackish water").
Great Salt Lake: Utah: 950 sq mi 2,460 km 2: natural salt [4] 9 Lake Oahe: North Dakota–South Dakota: 685 sq mi 1,774 km 2: man-made [5] 10 Lake Okeechobee: Florida: 662 sq mi 1,715 km 2: natural [6] 11 Lake Pontchartrain: Louisiana: 631 sq mi 1,634 km 2: natural brackish [7] 12 Lake Sakakawea: North Dakota: 520 sq mi 1,347 km 2: man-made 13 ...
The Winnibigoshish Lake Dam is a dam at the outlet of Lake Winnibigoshish into the Mississippi River in Minnesota, United States. The dam crosses the county line between Cass County and Itasca County, and lies within the Leech Lake Indian Reservation. The first dam on the site was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers from 1881 to ...
Gildow recalled a recent season on Cut Foot Sioux Lake, connected to Lake Winnibigoshish. He and a lot of other anglers with the same idea were casting into 2 to 3 feet of water and hitting ...
Leech Lake Indian Reservation. Coordinates: 47°21′19″N 94°15′25″W. Flag of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. The Leech Lake Reservation (Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag in the Ojibwe language) is an Indian reservation located in the north-central Minnesota counties of Cass, Itasca, Beltrami, and Hubbard. The reservation forms the land base for the ...
A new state law enacted earlier this month will help protect and manage 23 species, such as bowfin, gar and redhorses.3:06 p.m.: Lined up at 'Winnie'Lake Winnibigoshish, aka ... Live: Updates and ...
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 ...
Through additional treaties with the United States, the Leech Lake and Lake Winnibigoshish reservations were nearly doubled in size in the late nineteenth century. When the White Earth Reservation was created in 1867, the western Pillagers living about Otter Tail Lake agreed to relocate to that reservation so they would no longer be landless.