Dictionary of Wisconsin History
Search Results for: Keyword: 'lac du flambeau'
Term: Ojibwe Indians
Definition: 
Ojibwe Chief Obtossaway, 1903 WHI-23895
p>members of the Anishinabe confederacy, they entered northern Wisconsin ca. 1500 A.D.; today approximately 25,000 Ojibwe live on the Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac du Flambeau, Lac Court Oreilles, St. Croix, and Sokaogon (Mole Lake) reservations (see those terms for details) View pictures relating to Ojibwa Indians at Wisconsin Historical Images. View related articles at Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives.
[Source: Loew, Patty. Indian Nations of Wisconsin (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2001); information about the Wisconsin bands is available from the Gt. Lakes Intertribal Council at http://www.glitc.org/]
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