FREDERICA FREYBERG:Why are there so many non-tribal homeowners on the Lac du Flambeau reservation? Part of the answer goes back more than a century when in 1887, the federal Dawes General Allotment Act carved up Indigenous land for individual ownership. Marisa Wojcik speaks with Richard Monette, a UW-Madison professor of law and director of the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center. MARISA WOJCIK:Generally, what did Indigenous lands look like before the Dawes General Allotment Act came into place? RICHARD MONETTE:They almost didn’t look like anything to the untrained eye. And that’s part of the problem with European Americans coming over, Europeans coming over and not seeing territory and not seeing property.…