Committee discusses adding tribal land‑cession language to plan intro
Members recommended adding a sentence acknowledging that Ashland County sits on land ceded by Ojibwe treaty(s) rather than implying county history begins in 1860; members debated which treaty to cite and agreed to use neutral phrasing ("land ceded").
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A committee member asked whether the plan's introduction should acknowledge tribal history rather than simply noting the county was "established in 1860." Beth suggested adding neutral language referencing land ceded by the Ojibwe in a treaty to avoid implying the county was the area's origin of history.
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