Population
As of April 14, 2011
Leech Lake Reservation Enrollment: 4,132
Leech Lake Reservation Population: 10,456
Native American Population: 4,488 (42.9%)

Land
The Leech Lake Tribe holds the smallest percentage of its reservation of any of the state’s tribes. County, state, and federal governments owned well over half of the original land. Of the 864,158 original acres, nearly 300,000 acres are surface area of the three big lakes. The National Chippewa Forest has the largest portion of the land. Seventy-five percent of the National Forest is within the reservation. This leaves less than 5% of land owned by the Band.

Official Emblem and Flag

The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe
The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, comprised of the Bois Forte, Fond du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, Mille Lacs, and White Earth reservations, is a federally recognized tribal government that, through unified leadership, promotes and protects the member Bands while providing quality services and technical assistance to the reservation governments and tribal people.

The Leech Lake Reservation Business Committee (RBC)
The Leech Lake Tribal Council is the governing body with their offices in Cass Lake. The Tribal Council consists of a chairman, secretary/treasurer, and three district representatives:

Chairman, Arthur “Archie” LaRose
Secretary/Treasurer, Donald "Mick" Finn
District I Representative, Robbie Howe-Bebeau
District II Representative, Steve White
District III Representative, Eugene “Ribs” Whitebird

Eleven communities make up the reservation
The people have organized their own community councils to give a political voice to their concerns. These community councils are called, Local Indian Council or LIC’s. The smaller communities have facilities for community events and services such as medical clinics and programs for elders.

• Cass Lake - Tribal Headquarters
• Ball Club
• Bena
• Inger
• Onigum
• Mission
• Pennington
• Smokey Point
• Sugar Point
• Oak Point
• S. Lake

Health Care
Health services are provided at the IHS hospital and clinic in Cass Lake and clinics in the other communities. If care that is more extensive is needed, the hospitals in neighboring cities are used.

State counties within the Reservation boundaries
The reservation is split among four counties

• Beltrami
• Cass
• Hubbard
• Itasca

Tribal Owned Businesses

• Che We Express, Cass Lake
• Northern Lights Express, Walker
• Che We Office Supply, Cass Lake

The Tribe operates three gaming enterprises

• The Palace Casino & Hotel, Cass Lake
  
• Northern Lights Casino & Events Center, Walker
  
• White Oak Casino, Deer River