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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 sued the federal government Wednesday demanding more than $2.25 million while saying it was underpaid money it was owed regarding health care costs.
The Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation had been trying to reclaim its reservation in Illinois for nearly 200 years. The Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation had been trying to ...
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.
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 ...
Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas (and since 2024 Illinois). ... Cherokee Commission (allotment of Cherokee Outlet reservation) Potawatomi Trail of Death;
Joseph Rupnick, chairperson of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, said reburials have taken place, but he hopes there are more. The space is open to other tribes who want to keep their ancestors ...