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The Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe are one of seven federally recognized Wisconsin bands of Ojibwe. The band is based at the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation, at in northwestern Wisconsin, which surrounds Lac Courte Oreilles (''Odaawaa-zaaga'igan'' in the Ojibwe language, meaning "Ottawa Lake"). The main reservation's land is in west-central Sawyer County, but two small plots of off-reservation trust land are located in Rusk, Burnett County, and in Evergreen, Washburn County. The Reservation was established by the second Treaty of La Pointe in 1854. The Lac Courte Oreilles were signatories to a treaty with the United States signed in 1837, the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe, and the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe. The tribal reservation has a land area of 107.912 sq mi (279.492 km²), including the trust lands, and a population of 2,900 persons as of the 2000 census. The most populous community is Little Round Lake, at the reservation's northwest corner, south of the non-reservation city of Hayward, the county seat of Sawyer County. The reservation hosts an "Honor the Earth" Pow Wow every summer. Rock drummer Mickey Hart's recording of some of the performers, ''Honor The Earth Powwow--Songs Of The Great Lake Indians'', became a minor national hit in 1991. The band is federally recognized as a tribe and has its own government. It owns and operates a tribal college, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College, in Hayward. The band also operates the LCO Casino and a community radio station, WOJB-FM. ==Reservation== Lac Courte Oreilles is a land which is almost entirely covered by a forest and several lakes. To the northeast and east of Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, is Chequamegon National Forest which was established in 1933. White lumber companies had cleared the land of the trees and the Civilian Conservation Corps planted new trees starting in the 1930s. Today, both the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation and Chequamegon National Forest, are recovering from the onslaught brought on by the lumber companies. Of the lakes that are in the borders of Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation or border the Reservation, are Ashegon Lake, Blueberry Lake, Chief Lake, Cristner Lake, Devils Lake, Green Lake, Grindstone Lake, Gurno Lake, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lake Chippewa, Little Round Lake, Little Lac Courte Oreilles, Pokegama Lake, Rice Lake, Scott Lake, Squaw Lake, Spring Lake, Summit Lake, and Tyner Lake. Within the Reservations borders is the Grindstone Creek State Wildlife Management Area. Wild Rice called ''manoomin'' in Ojibwe language, grows on many of the waterways on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation and is still harvested in the traditional way by the citizens of the Reservation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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