The United States government promised the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation about 1,280 acres of Illinois reservation in an 1829 ...

Some of the especially notable tribes were the Iroquois that held vast territories in Eastern America and the Ojibwe in the Midwest. But in the Southwest, the Comanche nation was the dominant ...

The museum focuses on people and tribes from the Great Lake region through rotating exhibits, educational programming, and workshops and talks. Living Stories: Contemporary Woodland Native American ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a series of on how tribes and Indigenous communities ... disrupted Indigenous people’s lives in the Upper Midwest and barred them from traditional food gathering ...

It was established by the French in 1701 as a fortified trading post in the wake of 60 years of warfare between the Iroquois and the tribes of the Midwest. Dubbed “the straits” (détroit ...

Instead, the U.S sold all of it illegally to white settlers. The Prairie Band is now the latest tribe in the Midwest and Great Plains to get some of their ancestral home back. There are more than ...