LAC COURTE OREILLES
The Lac Courte Oreilles are one of seven Wisconsin bands of Ojibwa.
The band is centered 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 there are
two small plots of off-reservation trust land 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 are
signatories a treaty signed in 1837, the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe and
the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe. It has a land area of 107.912 sq mi
including the trust lands, and a population of 2,900 (as of the 2000
census). The most populous community is Little Round Lake, at the
reservation’s northwest corner, southeast of the non-reservation city
of Hayward, the county seat of Sawyer County.
Discovery First Nations Center began in 1991 with a very simple call to live out
reconciliation and to serve within First Nations and Native American
communities. Dave and Pam and their daughter live on the Lac Courte
Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation, (Odawazhiga’iganing), in northern
Wisconsin. They strive to live out the motto to “Know God and Make Him
Known”.