Chippewa Land Losses

Abstract

The account of Chippewa Indian confinement to reservations because of government "treaties" is both familiar and tragic. Not only have such treaties resulted in the alienation of Indian lands, but through subsequent enactment of a series of laws governing Indian reservations much of the remaining reservation land was also permitted to pass into non-Indian hands. Today Chippewa reservations include some 1,800,000 acres and are rather prominent features on United States maps, yet approximately 70% of this land is owned by non-India