Executive Order 2550: Islands in Lake Superior for the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Indians

Executive Order 2550: Islands in Lake Superior for the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Indians

March 21, 1917

White House

It is hereby ordered that two unsurveyed islands situated in Lake Superior in section 5, township 62 N., range 5 E., 4th P. M., Minnesota, as represented upon the official plat of the survey of said township approved October 28, 1893, on file in the General Land Office, and another unsurveyed island opposite the southeast corner of lot 8 of the section, not shown on said plat, and another unsurveyed island in the lake in section 34, township 63 N., range 5 E., 4th P. M., Minnesota, not indicated on the official plat of the survey of the township, be, and the same are hereby, set aside and reserved for the use and occupancy of the Indians of the Grand Portage Reservation, in Minnesota, subject to any existing valid rights in and to the same.

Woodrow Wilson

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