Tribal nation in Ashland County
Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Reservation
- County
- Ashland County
The Bad River Reservation is the homeland of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Mashkiiziibii), a federally recognized Ojibwe tribe whose reservation was set aside under the Treaty of La Pointe of September 30, 1854 on the south shore of Lake Superior, straddling Ashland and Iron counties in far northern Wisconsin. It spans about 124,655 acres (roughly 193 square miles of land) with an administrative and cultural center at Odanah on U.S. Highway 2 east of Ashland, had a 2020 census resident population of 1,545, and reports about 6,945 enrolled members. The Band governs itself through a seven-member elected Tribal Council chaired by Robert Blanchard, is the largest employer in Ashland County, and stewards the Kakagon and Bad River Sloughs, a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance holding the largest natural wild rice bed on the Great Lakes.
What the records show
- Ashland County holds 88 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Mashkiiziibii) via badriver-nsn.gov
- Type: federally recognized tribe; reservation set aside under the Treaty of La Pointe, September 30, 1854 via en.wikipedia.org
- County: Ashland County (primary) and Iron County, Wisconsin via dpi.wi.gov
- Coords: 46.531, -90.675 via en.wikipedia.org
- Area sqmi: 197.09 via en.wikipedia.org
- Acreage: 124655 via dpi.wi.gov
- Village: Odanah via dpi.wi.gov
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