Photo: Cloquet Forestry Center
The University of Minnesota is moving forward with its plan to return about 3,400 acres of land back to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe. Since 1909, the land has been occupied by the university’s Cloquet Forestry Center. The university and the band have drafted a memorandum of understanding outlining the return of the land and how the forestry center’s ongoing research might also meet the needs of the band, but there is no set timeline for the land return. The University of Minnesota, founded in 1851, closed in 1857 and did not reopen until 1867 with seed money generated from close to 100,000 acres of land taken from the 11 Minnesota tribes under the Morrill Act of 1862.
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