The University of Minnesota says it plans to return thousands of acres of forest land that were seized from the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa more than a century ago. "This is the right time to talk about repatriation of this land, returning it to Fond du Lac and what that would mean going forward," university President Joan Gabel told the Board of Regents. University and state officials are still working to determine what steps they'd have to take to complete the transfer and how long that process might last. Gabel, acknowledging "the road we still have to travel," described the university's announcement as an important first step. Leaders of the Fond du Lac Band have for years been asking the university to return the 3,400-acre swath of land that sits inside the Fond du Lac Reservation, just a few miles from the city of Cloquet. Tap the link in our bio for more. 📝 by Liz Navratil. 📷 by @alexkormann12. #minnesota #nativeamerican