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The Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Nation has regained about 2,500 acres of its ancestral land in northern Wisconsin since 2019.

These land acquisitions, negotiated with state officials, expand the tribe's presence into Oneida and Iron counties.

Much of the reclaimed land was originally taken from the Ojibwe and sold to fund public institutions like the University of Wisconsin.

The tribe is working to place the newly acquired land into a federal trust to protect it from future seizure and taxation.

Ojibwe territory once spanned more than 22,000 square miles in Wisconsin.

That expanse may be long gone, but one of the state's Ojibwe tribes now has regained a relatively small, but significant, portion of its land. Since 2019, the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Nation has taken owner

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