The Bay Mills Indian Community (BMIC), known in Ojibwe as Gnoozhekaaning or Place of the Pike, is an Indian reservation

Indian reservation

An American Indian reservation is an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs...

 forming the land base of one of the many Sault Ste. Marie bands of Chippewa

Ojibwa

The Ojibwe or Chippewa are among the largest groups of Native Americans–First Nations north of Mexico. They are divided between Canada and the United States. In Canada, they are the third-largest population among First Nations, surpassed only by Cree and Inuit...

 Indians. (Not to be confused with the "Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians" located in Sault Ste. Marie, MI). The largest section of the reservation is located in Chippewa County, Michigan

Chippewa County, Michigan

-National protected areas:* Harbor Island National Wildlife Refuge* Hiawatha National Forest * Whitefish Point Unit of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge-Demographics:...

, approximately 15 miles (25 km) west-southwest of Sault Ste. Marie

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Sault Ste. Marie is a city in and the county seat of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is in the north-eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on the Canadian border, separated from its twin city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, by the St. Marys River...

, in Bay Mills Township

Bay Mills Township, Michigan

Bay Mills Township is a civil township of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 1,214.-Communities:*Bay Mills Indian Community is a Chippewa community within the township....

 and Superior Township

Superior Township, Chippewa County, Michigan

Superior Township is a civil township of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,329 at the 2000 census.-Communities:...

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