"After almost a century, a Lake Superior band of Chippewa is just weeks away from getting part of their tribal home back.

The U.S. Department of Interior has agreed to return 15 acres of land on Wisconsin Point in Superior, land taken from the Fond du Lac Band in 1918.

That’s when tribal members were evicted from their village, treated as trespassers. Documents filed with the Department of the Interior say U.S. Steel wanted to build ore docks there, and the village was in their way. So were graves of ancestors dating back three centuries. Many of those graves were moved, but many remain."

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Indian tribe close to reclaiming land (Wisconsin Public Radio 4/6)