Leech Lake Reservation

They claim Leech Lake Reservation only owns a small percentage of their Reserve. Three large lakes within their Reserve, cover nearly 300,000 acres. They claim that over 560,000 acres is owned by Federal Government. However, U.S. Federal Government holds Reservation land in trust for Indian Nations, which means LLR's land that covers over 560,00 acres is, in fact, owned by Leech Lake Reservation. Below is a map of Leech Lake Reservation and google earth photos of Cass Lake. Leech Lake Reservation is really Chippewa National Forest. You'll notice on LLR's map a small portion is not located within Chippewa National Forest. Notice boundary colors. Look for Blue Boundary. This Reservation or Leech Lake Reservation, has a history that's somewhat of a mystery. Leech Lake Reservation is one of chief Rocky Boy's Reservations. We have to include Chippewa National Forest for obvious reasons. We can exclude that region from Cass Lake to west of Cass Lake, that's within LLR. It's not within Chippewa National Forest which means much if not most is "fee land" or land subject to city, county, State and Federal Taxes. Cass Lake's north limits is "Trust Land" or land owned by LLR's government.

Deceptive Creation

Supposedly Leech Lake Reservation was created on February 22, 1855. There were two delegations of Ojibway leaders that signed treaty. Not one of them was a real leader. That treaty that created LLR is illegal. Any treaty that includes Chippewas of the Mississippi River, dealt with Ojibway leaders from Montana. Mississippi River is 4th longest river on earth. However, from it's source in northern Minnesota to it's mouth at Gulf of Mexico, it's 2,320 miles long. Missouri River from it's source in southwest Montana to it's mouth at St. Louis, is 2,341 miles long. However, you only need to look at google earth to see that Missouri River is really Mississippi River. Comparing branches or stems, Missouri River is much longer which means it is Mississippi River. It's mouth is not at St. Louis. It's at Gulf of Mexico. Adding that portion of Mississippi River's length from St. Louis to it's mouth at Gulf of Mexico, to Missouri River, extends Missouri River by well over 1,000 miles. Missouri River is closer to 4,000 miles long. In Ojibway Language, they left a clue to let you know that whites were being deceitful. Mississippi does not mean Great River. It means Entire River or Whole River in Ojibway Language. Ojibway word for river is Sip-pi. Ojibway word for all, entire, everything and whole is Mi-si. Whites left clues also. In southwest Montana where Mississippi Rivers source is, whites named it Big Hole River. Ojibway People that lived in Big Hole Basin in southwest Montana, are known as Shoshone.

Those bogus Ojibway leaders that signed Treaty on February 22, 1855, were placed in power by whites. They were "paid" by American leaders to do what whites wanted. Many gifts were giving to them including Gold Medallions. Real Ojibway leaders were among the poorest of Ojibway People. They rejected Treaty of February 22, 1855. These following Ojibway's signed Treaty on February 22, 1855:

Mississippi Band Ojibway's

Hole in the Day (Pug O-na Ke-shik)
Bad Boy (Que-we-san-shish)
Little Hill (Wan-de-kaw)
Crossing Sky (Ia-we Sho-we We Ke-shig)
Rat's Liver (Pe-ted-dunce)
Rice Maker (Mu-nom-in-e-kay-shein - should be Mun-no-mint)
Chorister (Mah-yah-ge-way-we-durg)
Attempter (Kay-gwa-daush)
Crow Feather (Caw-cau-ge-we-goon)
He That Passes Under Everything (Show-baush-king)

Pillager and Lake Winnibigoshish Band

Flat Mouth (Aish-ke-bug-e-ko-she)
Buffalo (Be-sheck-kee)
Young Man's Son (Nay-bun-a-caush)
Stepping Ahead (Mau-ge-gaw-bow)
Eagle (Mig-i-si)
North Star (Kaw-be-mub-bee)

Ojibway leaders were known by their totem names! And Ojibway Nation was a Military and Police State which means those Ojibway's that signed Treaty on February 22, 1855, were frauds! The Ojibway Military and Police Totem took their names from predators. None of the bogus Mississippi Band of Ojibway's, have names indicating their totem. Their surnames were from their totems. However, the Pillager and Lake Winnibigoshish signers had possibly two representing their totems. One is Buffalo and the other Eagle. The name "Flat Mouth" would indicate to real Ojibway leaders, an Ojibway that kept silent. He was considered a traitor! And buffalo were considered by Ojibway's as dangerous! Rice Maker would indicate the Ojibway was from the Ojibway Agriculture Totem. Only Buffalo and Eagle were legitimate Ojibway leaders! Reserves were set aside which real Ojibway leaders rejected because they were very small. They include:

Cass Lake Reserve

Gull Lake Reserve

Lake Winnibigoshish Reserve

Leech Lake Reserve

Mil'ag Reserve - Mil'ag means Good Handle in Ojibway

Pokagomon Reserve

Rabbit Lake Reserve

Rice Lake Reserve

Sandy Lake Reserve

Montana Ojibway leaders became very upset with how American leaders used deception. It led to 1862's Minnesota War. Real Ojibway leaders constantly refused to ratify Treaty of February 22, 1855. American leaders became impatient and in August 1862 sent treaty representatives to that portion of Red River Colony located in Minnesota and North Dakota. Near Grand Forks or between Grand Forks and Fargo. They were extremely hostile and rude to Ojibway leaders. Ojibway Soldiers had been at war against Red River Colony since the 1820's or when American's established Fort Snelling. Whites, Eskimos, mixed bloods and Ojibway traitors from Red River Colony, were armed by Americans. They established a stronghold not far west from Fort Snelling. By late 1830's, they were armed with revolvers by American's. The war intensified yet Ojibway Soldiers were reinforced by Ojibway Soldiers from the Montana region.

American leaders wanted the war stopped and land cessions. They wanted the land in Red River Valley! What American leaders presented to Ojibway leaders was not acceptable! Very small Reserves was out of the question! During some point in the negotiations, Ojibway leaders got and left. Soon after, they sent 1,000's of Ojibway Soldiers to attack Red River Colony and whites living in south Minnesota. The war continued west. In Minnesota, a new treaty was negotiated on March 11, 1863 that created a very large Ojibway Reservation in northern Minnesota. However, a land cession was demanded by American leaders. On October 2, 1863, Pillager Ojibway leaders signed treaty that ceded Red River Valley in Minnesota and North Dakota. A large area of land was left unceded. However, American leaders used deception. On May 7, 1864, another treaty was signed that created Leech Lake Reservation including White Earth Reservation. In 1867, American leaders supposedly added what is now White Earth Reservation to Leech Lake Reservation. However, the mixed blood Hole in the Day, illegally ceded White Earth Reservation. He was killed for doing so! The unceded Pillager Ojibway land, supposedly remained unceded until 1889. We need to investigate "The Unceded Land" of Pillager Ojibway's. Red Lake Reservation was supposedly created from the unceded land in 1889. However, I suspect that the unceded land was land to relocate Ojibway's to, including Ojibway's from Montana.

They illegally reduced Leech Lake Reservation. Chief Rocky Boy's father was possibly from Minnesota. He migrated to Montana before chief Rocky Boy was born. Chief Rocky Boy was probably known of in Minnesota in 1890's and early 20th century. American leaders did not want a large Ojibway population in Montana so they commenced to forcefully relocating them elsewhere. One location was White Earth Reservation. Ojibway's became enraged in 1898 at Leech Lake Reservation about American deceptions. It erupted into violence on October 5, 1898. American leaders instigated trouble to force Ojibway People living in the land area between Leech Lake Reservation and White Earth Reservation. Ojibway leaders in 1898, considered the entire land area between Leech Lake Reservation and White Earth Reservation, to be Leech Lake Reservation. And they possibly thought the unceded land was yet theirs. In 1896, Bemidji and Walker were established by white invaders. In 1898, white invaders established Cass Lake. Pillager Ojibway leaders became very angry. They knew what it meant! Though Ojibway Soldiers won Battle of Sugar Point, those Ojibway's considered living off Reservation, were forced to relocate to Leech Lake Reservation, Red Lake Reservation and White Earth Reservation. Most Ojibway's who were living on land not considered Reservation land by American leaders, relocated to White Earth Reservation after 1898. Chief Bemidji was living in an Ojibway village along Lake Bemidji's south shores well into the 1890's. Battle of Sugar Point saved Leech Lake Reservation. Ojibway leaders were enraged after Battle of Sugar Point and openly warned whites about yet being warlike. To ease their intense rage, American leaders created Minnesota Forest Reserve (Chippewa National Forest) on June 27, 1902 for chief Rocky Boy. On January 14, 1902, chief Rocky Boy sent a letter to President Roosevelt requesting for Reservations for his Ojibway Subjects. He claimed he was leader of landless Chippewa Indians that had been living in different parts of Untied States, without homes and Reservations. He was denied Reservations yet was approved to settle at existing Reservations where land was added to those Reservations. One is Leech Lake Reservation which includes White Earth Reservation.

Satellite Image of Cass Lake

Cass Lake Road Close Up

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Cass Lake Road Close Up

Leech Lake Reservation covers 1,309.9 sq. mi. or 3,392.6 sq. km. or 838,336 acres or 339,262 hectares. Actually it is much larger and includes both White Earth Reservation and possibly Red Lake Reservation. They like you thinking they own only around 40,000 acres. However, that is incorrect. Only a small part of extreme western part of Leech Lake Reservation, is not within Chippewa National Forest. Remaining land area of Leech Lake Reservation, is within Chippewa National Forest. Don't be fooled by people who tell you, Leech Lake Reservation owns less than 5% of their land. Below is that excerpt from a June 4, 1902 Butte Inter Mountain Newspaper Article:

CHIPPEWAS SOON
READY TO LEAVE
HAVE BUCKS OUT LOOKING FOR
LAND WHERE THEY WILL
MAKE THEIR HOMES.
ST. MARY'S RIVER IS
CONSIDERED FAVORABLY

When Squads Return From Idaho and
Northwestern Montana and Report
Indians Will Pull Down Their Houses
and Hit the Trail for New Homes
Far From the Slaughterhouse.

(SPECIAL TO INTERMOUNTAIN)
Anaconda. June 5. Since receiving word
from Washington that each of their num-
ber are entitled to 160 acres of land some-
where in this vast country, the band of
nomad Chippewas encamped near the city
of Anaconda have assumed an air of ac-
tivity to which they have been strangers
many long months.

The question which is now agitating
the members of the band is where they
shall settle down and till the soil, take up
the white man's burden and lose trace of
the noble aborigine.

The entire band is thoroughly imbued
with a desire to get away from their pres-
ent quarters and already Chief Rocky Boy
has dispatched runners to look over vari-
ous sections where they are to be allowed
to live.

No Suke, a half breed Chippewa, com-
monly known as "Jim" and who is a power
in the band is strongly in favor of the
band taking land in the vicinity of To-
bacco plains, or along St. Mary's river
in northwestern Montana.

The Best Place.

This Indian is familiar with the greater
portion of Idaho and Montana and of all
the country open for them to settle in he
considers that the most favorable.

However, there is some land in Idaho
that some favor and Indians are now ab-
sent looking over both strips. When they
return and report on the lands they have
seen the Chippewas will decide where
they want to go and will lose no time in-
striking their tepees and hitting the trail.

This will be good news to the residents
of Anaconda and vicinity and especially
to the ranchers living below in the Deer
Lodge valley.

To these ranchers the Indians have
proved a continual source of annoyance
because of their polluting the waters of
the creek with camp offal and the con-
sequent danger of disease.

A 1901 census of Leech Lake Reservation, reported a total population of 3,346 including Red Lake Reservation which was under Leech Lake Reservation agency control at that time. That is bothersome because it was considered unceded land! Leech Lake District had a population of 848. Cass Lake and Lake Winnibigoshish Districts had a population of 435. White Oak Point District (it was really Lake Winnibigoshish District) had a population of 630. Red Lake District had a population of 1,304. Today, we know it is different. Cass Lake District has Leech Lake Reservation's largest population. That's because of 100's of Montana Ojibway's being Deported to Leech Lake Reservation in 1902 and 1903 and 100's of Ojibway's led by chief Bemidji settling near Cass Lake. Below is an excerpt from a December 4, 1902 The Minneapolis Jounal, Newspaper Article, that details a relocation of Mille Lacs Ojibway's (they were really Montana Ojibway's led by chief Rocky Boy) to White Earth Reservation.

BLACK SPOT IN WHITE
EARTH RESERVATION

Gull Lake and Twin Lake Chippewas Have Foresworn All Labor and
Progress and Are Sadly Behind the Times�Mille Lacs Indians,
Soon to Be Moved, Will Have Allotments Near Them.

Special to The Journal.
White Earth Agency, Minn , Dec. 3 �
The fact that the Mille Lacs Indians are
to be removed to the White Earth Reser-
vation is likely to defer the opening of
the Reservation for some years to come.
They will want to take up their allotments
on the northeastern portion of the
Reservation in what are known as the
Twin Lakes and Gull Lakes settlements.

Leech Lake Reservation has over 30 settlements or villages. Most of them are unincorporated locations with no given names to identify them being a community. Most are very small communities with 10 to 30 housing units. Many of their housing units are mobile homes or manufactured homes. Recognized Leech Lake Reservation towns include Ball Club, Bena, Cass Lake, Inger, Oak Point, Onigum, Ryan Village and Squaw Lake. However, they have many more communities that are located on "Trust Land or Federal Land." However, not all of them are located on "Trust Land." Though Chippewa National Forest is protected land, American leaders have allowed much of CNF to become private land. That's why LLR has a large white population. Most communities are located near Cass Lake. In Ojibway Language, Cass Lake means "Conceal Lake." Ojibway word for "conceal and hide" is "kas." Each Ojibway community has it's name on that google earth map to let you know it's location.

Demographics of Leech Lake Reservation

Covers 1.6 million acres or 2,500 sq. mi.
Total Population: 10,025
Indian Population: 4,561
White: 5,278
Black: 9
Asian: 42
Mixed: 311
Hispanic: 144 - Hispanic population is corrupted as usual. Mexicans are predominantly descended from the Native Americans who lived in the eastern part of the United States. The whites have forced them to lose their tribal identities.