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The Prairie Band Potawatomi Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Jackson County, Kansas, United States.The Potawatomi used to be located in the Great Lakes area, but were forced to move west due to Europeans settling their land. [1]
Independently of the Council of Three Fires, the Prairie Band were also signatories to the 1832 Treaty of Tippecanoe (7 Stat. 378) as the Potawatomi Tribe of Indians of the Prairie. In the 1830s, Chief Shab-eh-nay , the leader of tribal residents on 1,300 acres (530 ha) of land in Illinois, went to visit members of his family who had been ...
The Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation had been trying to reclaim its reservation in Illinois for nearly 200 years. Wisconsin Ho-Chunk help create only tribal reservation in Illinois for ...
Separate federal lawsuits filed this month raise jurisdictional questions involving Jackson County and the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. One, filed by the tribe, seeks to bar the Jackson County ...
The US recognized the Potawatomi as a single tribe. They often had a few tribal leaders whom all villages accepted. The Potawatomi had a decentralized society, with several main divisions based on geographic locations: Milwaukee or Wisconsin area, Detroit or Huron River , the St. Joseph River , the Kankakee River , Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers ...
But around 1848, the U.S. sold the land to white settlers while Shab-eh-nay and other members of his tribe were visiting family in Kansas. To right the wrong, Illinois would transfer a 1,500-acre (607-hectare) state park west of Chicago, which was named after Shab-eh-nay, to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.
The Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation sued the federal government Wednesday demanding more than $2.25 million while saying it was underpaid money it was owed regarding health care costs.
Prairie Band Casino & Resort is a Native American casino in Mayetta, Kansas, owned by the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. It was originally operated by Harrah's Entertainment under a management agreement with the tribe until July 1, 2007, when the tribe took over operations.