Grand Traverse Reservation (Indian reservation (Native American reservation))
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 01 12 N degrees minutes
Lat: 45.0202 decimal degrees
Long: 085 36 22 W degrees minutes
Long: -85.6060 decimal degrees
Note: This is a federally-recognized reservation stewarded by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottowa and Chippewa Indians, comprised of the Odawa (Ottawa), Ojibwa (Chippewa) and Bodowadomi (Pottawatomi) peoples. The reservation spans 450 acres in six counties located in Michigan's northwestern lower peninsula; the entirety of the reservation lands are held in federal trust. After years of colonization and settler-imposed war on the their ancestral territories, the Odawa, Ojibwa and Bodowadomi peoples signed the treaties of 1836 and 1855 that promised them reservation lands in exchange for lands ceded to the federal government. While the ceded lands would eventually be used to establish the state of Michigan, the treaties were promptly broken by the federal government and the promised reservation land was never allocated to the tribe. It was not until January 6, 1984, four years after the Band was federally recognized, that a proclamation of the Secretary of the Interior established the reservation by its current name.
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