Red Lake's seven hereditary chiefs are gathered ... (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEINBERG: A corner was sliced off the reservation map. Whether or not it was by accident, we'll never know.

The overall picture of the Red Lake Reservation, though ... of pride is that “the Red Lake Nation is one small dot on the map of the U.S. that has never been owned by the white government ...

where the tribe owns just a tiny fraction of its reservation land. But just northwest of Leech Lake is Red Lake: one of the only reservations in the country where the tribe owns all of its land.