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Judge affirms that 61,000-acre Mille Lacs Reservation still exists. What does that mean?

Sign marks borders of the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation.
A sign along southbound Minnesota Highway 169 marks the borders of the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation as established in an 1855 treaty. A federal judge recently ruled that the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe's original reservation borders outlined in the treaty remain intact. Courtesy of Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.
Courtesy of Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe