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The combined peoples live primarily at the L'Anse Indian Reservation at the western end of Lake Superior. [1] The Ontonagon Reservation is located in northeastern Ontonagon Township, in northeastern Ontonagon County, on the south shore of Lake Superior, about 20 km northeast of the village of Ontonagon, Michigan, United States.
The L'Anse Indian Reservation is the land base of the federally recognized Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (Ojibwe: Gakiiwe’onaning) of the historic Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians. (The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community was defined in 1934 by the Indian Reorganization Act as the successor apparent of the L’Anse and Ontonagon bands). [ 4 ]
Under the federal Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, which otherwise encouraged tribes to re-established self-government, the Lac Vieux Desert Band lost their independent federal recognition. Together with the formerly independent L'Anse and Ontonogon bands, they were classified as members of the newly named Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. But ...
L'Anse (/ l ɑː n s / LAHNSS) is a village and the county seat of Baraga County, Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The population was 1,874 at the 2020 census . [ 8 ] The village is located within L'Anse Township in the Upper Peninsula and partially inside the L'Anse Indian Reservation .
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 ...
As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,158, making it Michigan's fifth-least populous county. [3] The county seat is L'Anse. [4] The county is named after Bishop Frederic Baraga, a Catholic missionary who ministered to the Ojibwa Indians in the Michigan Territory. [1] The L'Anse Indian Reservation of the Ojibwa is within Baraga County.
As of the census of 2020, [2] the population of the Lac Vieux Desert Reservation was 221. The population density was 527.4 inhabitants per square mile (203.6/km 2).There were 82 housing units at an average density of 195.7 per square mile (75.6/km 2).
The Zeba Indian United Methodist Church is designated as a Michigan State Historic Site. [5] Zeba has a history very similar to that of nearby L'Anse, since the same missionaries and traders were established in both places. The American Fur Trading Company had a post in Zeba, and was a major shipping point for furs, hides, and sandstone.