Little River Band of Ottawa Indians

Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (Ojibwe: Gaaching-Ziibi Daawaa Anishinaabe) is a federally recognized Native American tribe of the Odawa people in the United States.

This area around the Manistee River was long occupied by bands of Ottawa and Chippewa (Ojibwe) peoples before European colonization.

In 1836 the United States government assigned the Ottawa to a reservation along the Manistee River by a treaty; this was part of the tribe's historic range.

The treaty provided reservation lands for five years and provisions to move tribal members west beyond the Missouri River; however, the parties ratified in 1855.

Part of that land came back under tribal ownership in August 2000 when the Little River Band bought about 740 acres in Mason County.

The Tribal Council has set the membership rules, based on blood quantum and descent from individuals recorded in historic bands of the region.