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Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
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> United States > Wisconsin > Reservations
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| Website | http://www.badriver-nsn.gov |
| Established | 00, 0000 |
| Disbanded | Still Active |
| Contributor | Ashley |
| Last Modified | Ashley March 02, 2013 12:43pm |
| Description |
The Bad River Band Of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians is located on a 125,000+ acre reservation in Northern Wisconsin on the south shore of Lake Superior (Known by the tribe as Gichi Gami) in Ashland and Iron Counties. Territory ceded by the tribe to the U.S. government includes the upper one third of what is now the State of Wisconsin.
The tribe has over 7,000 members, the majority living off the reservation, about 1,500 live on the reservation in one of four main communities. These are New Odanah, Diaperville, Birch Hill and Frank's Field plus others at scattered sites and the Beartrap Creek area. The reservation is over 90% wild land kept in its natural state whenever possible by the tribe. The land base plus almost 200 acres on Madeline Island was set aside for the Bad River Band (then known as the Lapointe Band) in the treaty of 1854. This treaty was finalized on September 30, 1854 at Lapointe on Madeline Island, longtime capital and cultural/religious center of the Ojibwe AKA Chippewa Nation. The meaning of the word Ojibwe is unclear at this point: some would translate it as "he who writes", referring to the fact that the people kept some of their records written on birchbark scrolls in a pictographic writing system they had developed. The Ojibwe people have been located in this area since well before Columbus stumbled onto the Americas; historically, the French explorers Radisson and Groseilliers "discovered" Ojibwe people here in the mid-1600's.
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