The Red Lake Indian Reservation covers 1,260.3 sq mi in parts of nine counties in Minnesota, United States. It is made up of numerous holdings but the largest section is an area around Red Lake, in no
Red Lake welcome sign in Bejou, Minnesota in 2023
U.S. Indian Commissioner William P. Dole seated, John G. Nicolay (Lincoln's private Secretary) standing at Big Lake encampment, Sherburne County, Minnesota mid-August 1862. They were en route to make a treaty with the Red lake and Pembina bands on the Red River that was postponed due to the Sioux. It had been planned for August 25th. Nicolay had been sent as Lincoln's personal representative to the Chippewa.
Red Lake Chiefs ca. 1890, photographed by Frank Jay Haynes
Tipi summer home of John Jones, Red Lake Agency, 1925
The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coextensive with Angle Township, is a pene-exclave of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. Excluding surveying errors, it is the
Red Lake Indian Reservation
…is also part of the reservation. The reservation population was 5,506 in the 2020 census. The second-largest section () is much farther north, in the Northwest Angle of Lake of the Woods County near the Canada–United States border. It has no permanent residents. Between these two largest sections are hundreds of…
Northernmost Point in the Contiguous U.S. buoy in Youngs Bay.
Border crossing at the Angle
Reporting booth at Jim's Corner in 2007. Upon entering the Northwest Angle by road, the traveler must enter the booth and report to U.S. Customs and Canadian customs when leaving to Canada.
Most of the land area of the region is wooded, including the Northwest Angle State Forest.