Sandy Lake is an unincorporated community Native American village located in Turner Township, Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States.

The original village was seasonally mobile, located anywhere along the shores of Big Sandy Lake or along the Savanna Portage, fostering both trade along the portage and of hunting, fishing and gathering of foods, medicine and other materials.

In 1850, without much notice Sandy Lake hosted the United States' annuity payments to the Ojibwe.

In 1855, the Gaa-mitaawangaagamaag Ishkonigan (Sandy Lake Indian Reservation) was established under the 1855 Treaty of Washington (10 Stat.

In 1915, with the assistance from the neighboring Fond du Lac Band, the Sandy Lake Cemetery was again secured.