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However, in 1989, Fond du Lac (who is now a party to the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission) withdrew from the agreement. The Tri-Band Authority then became the 1854 Authority and subsequently changed their name in 2006 to the 1854 Treaty Authority and continued to implement the agreement for the Grand Portage and Bois Forte Bands.
An act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota (51st-1st-Ex.Doc.247; 25 Stat. 642), commonly known as the Nelson Act of 1889, was a United States federal law intended to relocate all the Anishinaabe people in Minnesota to the White Earth Indian Reservation in the western part of the state, and expropriate the vacated reservations for sale to European ...
Many bands include "Lake Superior Chippewa" in their official tribal names to indicate their historic and cultural affiliations (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, etc.) Historical bands and political successors-apparent are the following: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, merged from
In his History of the Ojibway People (1855), ... Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; Grand Portage Band of Chippewa; Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.
There were 4,856 from the Mississippi Band of Chippewa (over 1,000 were Mille Lacs band, and many were Dakota). [citation needed] The Pillagers numbered 1,218; the Pembina Band were 472; and 113 were Fond du Lac and other Lake Superior Chippewa bands.
He signed several Chippewa treaties with the United States, including the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien, the 1826 Treaty of Fond du Lac, the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters, and the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe.
Milwaukee and Fond du Lac Railroad: MILW: 1851 1853 Milwaukee, Fond du Lac and Green Bay Railroad: Milwaukee, Fond du Lac and Green Bay Railroad: MILW: 1853 1854 La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad: Milwaukee and Horicon Railroad: MILW: 1852 1863 Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad: CNW: 1872 1875
Map showing the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe land cession area of what now is Minnesota's portion of Lake Superior, Wisconsin and Michigan. The first treaty of La Pointe was signed by Robert Stuart for the United States and representatives of the Ojibwe Bands of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River on October 4, 1842 and proclaimed on March 23, 1843, encoded into the laws of the United States ...