In 1850, treaty annuities for 19 Ojibwe Bands were paid at Sandy Lake. The Wisconsin and Upper Michigan Bands were required to come to Sandy Lake rather than go to La Pointe on Madeline Island for their treaty payments, traveling hundreds of miles by likely canoe and foot routes. Approximate distances included 220 miles from Red Cliff / La Pointe via Lake Superior, St. Louis River, and Savanna Rivers and Savanna Portage; 250 miles from Bad River by the same route; 430 miles from Lac du Flambeau via the Chippewa River and route traveled from Lac Courte Oreilles; 260 miles from Lac Courte Oreilles via the Namekagon River, St. Croix River, Bois Brule River, Lake Superior, St. Louis River, and Savanna Rivers and Savanna Portage; 370 miles from Lac Vieux Desert via the Ontonagon River, Lake Superior, St. Louis River, and Savanna Rivers and Savanna Portage; and 460 miles from Keweenaw Bay via Lake Superior, St. Louis River, and Savanna Rivers and Savanna Portage. Today, those 19 Bands are succeeded by 12 federally recognized Bands whose present-day reservations are also identified.