{Voyageurs National Park originally posted by US Interior} Voyageurs National Park on the border of Minnesota and Ontario is Ojibwe land, and Cree and Assiniboine before them. Although there was some mining in this area - and the original treaties were designed to acquire land for mining - the Ojibwe were largely pushed out of these waters by the tourism industry and 20th-century conservation. Today there are many Ojibwe reservations and reserves on both sides of the border around Voyageurs and the Boundary Waters.

Because the area is now mostly used by tourists, tourism and recreation are often seen as the only legitimate uses of this space. Therefore, despite the Ojibwe living throughout the area and retaining treaty-guaranteed resource sovereignty over the land, they can only enter their homeland as tourists and are still fighting for their rights to use the land as they wish instead of only under the same restrictions placed on non-Ojibwe visitors.