Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
45°52′59″N 91°19′13″W / 45.88306°N 91.32028°W
Ojibwe: Odaawaa-zaaga'iganiing | |
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Flag of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band | |
| Total population | |
| 7,275 (2010) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States ( Wisconsin) | |
| Languages | |
| English, Ojibwe | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Ojibwe people |
The Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe (Ojibwe: Odaawaa-zaaga'iganiing) is one of six federally recognized bands of Ojibwe people located in present-day Wisconsin. It had 7,275 enrolled members as of 2010. The band is based at the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation 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, and Washburn counties. The reservation was established in 1854 by the second Treaty of La Pointe.
The Lac Courte Oreille ceded land under a treaty they signed with the United States in 1837, the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe, and the first 1854 Treaty of La Pointe. The tribal reservation has a land area of 108.36 square miles (280.65 km2), including the trust lands and a population of 2,968 persons as of the 2020 census. The most populous community is Little Round Lake, at the reservation's northwest corner. It is south of the non-reservation city of Hayward, the county seat of Sawyer County.