Potawatomi hope to finalize land transfer when lawmakers return in the fall – Capitol News IL

The Prairie Band Potawatomi are now headquartered in northeast Kansas. But they once had a reservation in what is now Dekalb County, a reservation that officials now agree was illegally sold out from under them in 1850. The proposed land transfer legislation, Senate Bill 867, would make up one part of a larger plan the tribe has to settle its legal claims and reestablish its presence in northern Illinois.
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William Butler Hickok
1 year ago

The people of the land deserve to receive their land back that we have stolen from them. Make it right they of all deserve it.

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