163, and there were 75 people on other trust land parcels. The Bois Forte Indian Reservation is a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, who in July 2007, reported 3,052 people enrolled in the Bois Forte Band. History The community first entered into a treaty with the United States in 1854 that set aside an undefined region around Lake Vermilion as a reservation. The regions at Nett Lake and Itasca County were officially established in an 1866 treaty, and the Lake Vermilion lands were defined in an 1881 executive order. Following the Nelson Act of 1889, the lands were surveyed and subdivided, but the U.S. federal government did not force tribe members to move to the White Earth Indian Reservation. Even so, allotment allowed timber companies and white settlers to acquire much of the land within the reservation boundaries. Only about 41% of the Nett Lake reservation was still tribally-owned by 1981. In 2022, the Conservation Fund returned of forest land at Nett Lake to the Bois Forte Band. 50% of the reservation is wetland, and the 7,300 acre (30 km²) Nett Lake is said to be the largest producer of wild rice in the United States. References External links American Indian reservations in Minnesota Anishinaabe reservations and tribal-areas in the United States Geography of Itasca County, Minnesota Populated places in Koochiching County, Minnesota Ojibwe reserves and reservations Native American tribes in Minnesota Populated places in St. Louis County, Minnesota hr:Zagaakwaandagowininiwag