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(AP) — Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from ... relatives, Illinois may soon return it to the tribe. Nothing ever changed the 1829 treaty that Chief Shab-eh-nay signed ...
His action Friday comes nearly a year after the group became the first federally recognized tribal nation in Illinois ... land, largely encompassing the state park, while Chief Shab-eh-nay ...
The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised ... territory in the same area that was ceded to Chief Shab-eh-nay in a treaty with the U.S. government in ...
After 175 years of patience and persistence, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed a piece of their ancestral land in Illinois ... treaty—but when Chief Shab-eh-nay and his people ...