(Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay via Courthouse News) CINCINNATI (CN) — An appeals panel analyzed the text of an 1855 treaty between federal officials and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and concluded in a ruling released Tuesday that the document gave individual land ownership to tribe members, but did not create an Indian reservation. The band, consisting of at least five distinct factions of Ottawa and Chippewa tribes, sued the state of Michigan in 2015 seeking a declaration the Treaty of 1855 created a reservation. According to court documents, the treaty “provided each head of the family with 80 acres of land, or each single person over 21 years of age with 40 acres of land.”