Otter Tail County was once home to Ojibwe

More than 58,000 people call Otter Tail County their home. At one time, this area was in Ojibwe hands.

Thirty-five years before Old Clitherall became the first non-Native American permanent settlement in Otter Tail County, an Ojibwe village at Otter Tail Lake was large and well established. The year was 1830. An expert on this subject who spoke Nov. 3 during the annual meeting of the Otter Tail County Historical Society is Anton Treuer, a professor at Bemidji State University.

“We felt honored to hear the comments from Dr. Treuer, widely recognized as one of the most prolific scholars of Ojibwe,” said Chris Schuelke, executive director of the County Historical Society.

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