Topic summary
Stockbridge-Munsee
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Stockbridge–Munsee Community.
Reservation
The Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation consists of a checkerboard of land across the towns of Bartelme and Red Springs in Shawano County, Wisconsin. When created in 1856, the reservation included both townships in their entirety, amounting to roughly 72 square miles (190 km). Legislation in 1871 and 1906 nearly eliminated the band's land holdings. The current reservation consists of parcels that the U.S. has placed into trust for the band since the 1930s. In 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled against the band's appeal to restore the original reservation boundaries.