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This feature class incorporates portions of the northern Wisconsin state outline with a representation of the southern boundaries of the 1837 and 1842 treaty areas of the Ojibwe Ceded Territories in Wisconsin as delineated by the Voigt Decision (State of Wisconsin v. Gurnoe, 53 Wis. 2d 390 (1972); Lac Courte Oreilles v. Voigt (LCO I), 700 F. 2d 341 (7th Cir. 1983), cert. denied 464 U.S. 805 (1983); Lac Courte Oreilles v. State of Wisconsin (LCO III), 653 F.Supp. 1420 (W.D. Wis. 1987); Lac Courte Oreilles v. State of Wisconsin (LCO IV), 668 F.Supp. 1233 (W.D. Wis. 1987); Lac Courte Oreilles v. State of Wisconsin (LCO V), 686 F.Supp. 226 (W.D. Wis. 1988); Lac Courte Oreilles v. State of Wisconsin (LCO VI), 707 F.Supp. 1034 (W.D. Wis. 1989); Lac Courte Oreilles v. State of Wisconsin (LCO VII), 740 F.Supp 1400 (W.D. Wis. 1990); Lac Courte Oreilles v. State of Wisconsin (LCO VIII), 749 F.Supp. 913 (W.D. Wis. 1990); Lac Courte Oreilles v. State of Wisconsin (LCO IX), 758 F.Supp. 1262 (W.D. Wis. 1991); Lac Courte Oreilles v. State of Wisconsin (LCO X), 775 F.Supp. 321 (W.D. Wis. 1991)). Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources staff downloaded updated Ceded Territory in Wisconsin data from the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) website in April, 2015. DNR staff merged the southern boundary line with a portion of the northern Wisconsin state outline. |