The Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (or Gete-gitigaaniwininiwag in Anishinaabe) is a Chippewa Lake Superior band, many of which are on Reservation Indian Lac Vieux Desert, located near Watersmeet, Michigan. It is about 45 miles southeast of Ironwood, Michigan in Gogebic County.
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When the Ojibwe nation is divided into two and expanded to the west from Sault Ste. Marie region, south of Ojibwe comes to the area now known as Lac Vieux Desert. The Lake Superior Band of Chippewa includes twelve bands in the historic period.
This lake, known as Gete-gitigaani-zaaga'igan ("Lake of the old garden") in Anishinaabe, is located near several major watersheds. It serves as an ideal travel/trade hub connecting main waterways and lanes to Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and the Wisconsin River. The Lac Vieux Desert Band is one of three in Michigan. Nine other bands from Lake Superior Chippewa live in a place organized as Wisconsin and Minnesota under US rule.
All twelve bands signed an agreement with the United States. The Head of Desert Vie Vieux Band signed the Treaty of St. Peters in 1837, the La Pointe Treaty of 1842, and the La Pointe Treaty of 1854, with which they surrendered communal land of tribes in Michigan to the United States. The second La Pointe Agreement of 1854, added to include newly incorporated bands in US territory due to international border changes, also established Indian Lac Vieux Desert Reservation. This is known as Gete-gitigaaning in Anishinaabe.
Under the federal Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, which instead pushed the tribes to reestablish self-government, the Lac Vieux Desert Band lost their independent federal recognition. Together with independent L'Anse and Ontonogon bands, they are grouped as members of the new Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. But they continue to be in the Watersmeet region separately.
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Independent federal recognition
Indian activism was on the rise in the 1960s, when tribes were organized to assert their rights and sovereignty. Beginning later and for almost 20 years, the Band worked to regain independent federal recognition as a self-regulating group. They have an independent historical relationship with the federal government, as documented by their many separate agreements and reservations. The band finally gained recognition through the Congressional bill: on September 8, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the "Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Act" (HR 3697) which officially recognizes the Band as a separate and distinct tribe other than the Keweenaw Indian Community Bay.
Lac Vieux Desert Band independently joins the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc. in 1988. Formed in 1966 to represent the tribes in Michigan, share management resources, and get funding through joint programs. When the tribes have grown and developed more of their own programs, it has transferred the function to them.
Economic development
The tribe owns and operates the Northern Waters Casino Resort in Watersmeet, Michigan. The resort includes a golf course. Seasonal events include ice fishing competitions in winter.
The tribe also developed tribal finance services, with the Red Rock Tribal Lending LLC business, dba Castlepayday.com. The Better Business Bureau reports a high volume of over 300 complaints since 2012 about Castlepayday, based on "terms of loans issued, prevailing interest rates and the manner in which these terms are disclosed to consumers." Because the volume of complaints is related to the volume of the business, and the company's approach to resolving complaints, BBB gives businesses a "F" rating. The related business has Duck Creek Financial, which closed December 1, 2015.
The tribe received a historic preservation grant from the National Park Service to conduct a survey of the ancient Lac Vieux Desert to the L'Anse Trail, a path along the more than 80 miles used by Ojibwe before the 17th century between this area and L'Anse. They continued to use it into the 1940s. The tribe wants to identify and preserve significant historical footprints, as part of the Ottawa National Forest management plan, which occupies the land near them. The trail runs through the districts of Baraga, Houghton, Iron and Gogebic.
References
External links
- Official website for Lac Vieux Desert Band
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