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Most of the population lived in the 232.78-acre (0.9420 km 2) northern section in the unincorporated community of Watersmeet, near the junction of US routes 45 (US 45) and 2. Some 26 persons lived in the 95.26-acre (385,500 m 2) southern section, which is located on the north shore of Lac Vieux Desert, on the Michigan-Wisconsin border.
The Lac Vieux Desert Band independently joined the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc. in 1988. It was formed in 1966 to represent tribes in Michigan, share management resources, and gain funding through joint programs. As the tribes have grown and developed more of their own programs, the council has transferred functions to them.
Watersmeet Township is a civil township of Gogebic County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,456 in 2020. [3] The Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation is located in two small segments within Watersmeet Township. [4]
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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.
Rice Bay, on the Michigan side of Lac Vieux Desert, contains a significant stand of wild rice traditionally managed and harvested by the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. The availability of wild rice, and the annual rice harvest, played a central role in Ojibwe migration to the area and led to the establishment of a ...
A 1831 ruling described Indian tribes as “domestic dependent nations” and their relationship to the U.S. as being “that of a ward to his guardian.” History: Earth, land and the golden ...
Leaders of the nontribal Town of Lac du Flambeau are asking state officials if they would consider giving land back to an Ojibwe tribe to resolve a 19-month long dispute over the use of roads on ...