Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation

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Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation located in Watersmeet Township of southeastern Gogebic County, in the western part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It is the landbase for the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The reservation has a total land area of 1.3275 km² (328.04 acres), split into two sections in eastern Watersmeet Township. The 2000 census reported a total population of 135 residents. Most of the population lived in the 232.78-acre northern section in the unincorporated community of Watersmeet, near the junction of U.S. Route 45 and U.S. Route 2. Only 26 persons lived in the 95.26-acre southern section, which is on the north shore of a lake named Lac Vieux Desert, on the Michigan-Wisconsin border.