Chippewa Indians Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation

This band of chippewa indians have had horrible contacts with the canadian whites. Supposedly they have a reserve located west of thunder bay, but during the 1950s major flooding caused by the whites, forced most of them to relocate elsewhere and the whites have not been helpful in assissting them. They live scattered among many white communities. The first floods hit them in 1872, when the whites constructed the dawson trail and red river road and dam, in that year. These chippewa indians may be related to the chippewa's from the mille lacs reservation in minnesota. Their ancestors probably fought in the 1862 minnesota-pembina war. The whites obviously hold a grudge against them, as they do the st. croix chippewa's. Though the Chippewa Indians Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation is an accepted chippewa reserve, the great injustice done to these innocent people by the evil white race, is inexcusable. Though they claim the flooding forced many of them to flee to white communities, we are better off thinking that the great majority fled to the north where their anishinabe kin live.