Lac du Flambeau, WI

Lac du Flambeau is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the Town of Lac du Flambeau, at the center of the reservation of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The Band's history here reaches to 1745, when Chief Keeshkemun led his group to the area known as Waswagoning, or the place of spear fishing by torchlight; the 1854 treaty established the reservation. The community surrounds 1,166-acre Flambeau Lake, and tribal enterprises include manufacturing, a mall, campground, fish hatchery, gas station, and the Lake of the Torches Hotel/Casino and Bingo. Lakes, rivers, and woodlands support fishing, hunting, boating, and snowmobiling, while tribal government and cultural work give the place a clear center in northern Wisconsin.