Mole Lake is located 7 miles south of Crandon on beautiful Route 55 is the home of the Sokaogon Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. About 500 members operate a Casino Bingo Hall and café. The casino has made a smoke shop, a new fully staffed health clinic and a new daycare and playground possible. There is a 25-room motel a few blocks north of the casino.

The Sokaogon Chippewa are of Algonquian origin having migrated from eastern Canada a thousand years ago. They were led by a vision that their journey would end in a land where "food grows on water"… wild rice. Their history was depicted on birch bark scrolls called Midewiwin (Medicine) Scrolls.

Family clans moved here to Mole Lake area over 300 years ago from Madeline Island. Rice Lake was rich in wild rice and competition from the Sioux Indians resulted in the "Battle of Mole Lake." The Sioux were defeated in a fierce hand-to-hand battle. Today there stands a marker where many Sioux fell.

Sokaogon means, "Post in the Lake People" because of a spiritual significance to a sacred post in Post Lake. The Sokaogon Chippewa are also known as the Lost Tribe because the legal title to the 12-mile square reservation went down in a shipwreck on Lake Superior in the 1800s.

Events: Two Powwows are held annually, T.R.A.I.L.S on the first weekend in March and the Strawberry Moon Powwow on Father's Day Weekend at the Mole Lake Campgrounds.

Fish Hatchery: Volunteers raise millions of walleye fingerlings for area lakes and streams.