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	New Buffalo Township
		Pokagon, second ranking Potawatomi chief, a Catholic convert described as "the reality of the noble red man of whom we read", who may have lived near the mouth of the Galien river and had later established a tribal village in Bertram Township, sought and received permission to move his settlement to Cass County.
		The Michigan Central Railroad was chartered in 1846 to build a line to a point near the Indiana boundary and Lake Michigan.
		By 1880 the township's population was 1198, an increase of 376 people (46%) over the previous twenty years.
	www.newbuffalotownship.org (1875 words)

	Sample Contracts - Management Agreement - Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and Great Lakes Gaming of Michigan LLC - ...
		"POKAGON COUNCIL" shall mean the duly elected, governing legislative body of the Band described pursuant to Public Law 102-323 or, at the option of the Band, a designee committee or council created pursuant to resolution or ordinance of the Pokagon Council.
		The Pokagon Council, Business Board, and Manager shall meet to discuss the proposed Capital Budget and the Business Board and Pokagon Council shall be required to make specific written objections to a proposed Capital Budget in the same manner and within the same time periods specified in ss.
		Unless the Pokagon Council, Business Board, and Manager otherwise agree, Manager shall be responsible for the design and installation of Capital Replacements, subject to the Business Board's approval and ratification by the Pokagon Council and right to inspect.
	contracts.onecle.com /lakes/pokagon.manage.2000.10.16.shtml (9479 words)

	Tribes of Michigan
		Since the Sauk are known to have lived in Michigan at an early period, it is probable that the Foxes did also, but this is still uncertain.
		The same probability of an early residence in Michigan applies to the Kickapoo as to the Foxes and for a similar reason.
		This tribe ceded its claim to a portion of the upper peninsula of Michigan in 1836.
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		It is about a 90-minute drive from Chicago and the first stop for many visitors to Michigan entering from Indiana on eastbound Interstate 94.
		New Buffalo is also the location for Southwestern Michigan's first gambling casino, the Four Winds Casino Resort, which opened August 2, 2007.
		The spread of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHSv) is forcing Michigan DNR to place a one-year moratorium on walleye, northern pike, and muskellunge production and stocking in state lakes.
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	South Haven Township and the City of South Haven
		The present township of South Haven was organized in 1855.
		It is bound on the north by Allegan County, on the east by Geneva, on the south by Covert and on the west by Lake Michigan.
		The population of the township, outside the city as given in the 1910 census was 1218, in 1980 was 4,152 and 4,046 in 2000.
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	Cass County Michigan
		Cass County, located in southwestern Michigan, is the second county east of Lake Michigan, and bordered by Indiana on the south.
		It is comprised of 15 townships, one city (Dowagiac), and four incorporated villages (Cassopolis, Edwardsburg, Marcellus, and Vandalia).
		Cass County was the scene of the Kentucky slave raid of 1847.
	www.remc11.k12.mi.us /lcisd/cass_co.htm (469 words)

	Pokagon township, Cass County, Michigan (MI) Detailed Profile
		Pokagon township, Cass County, Michigan (MI) Detailed Profile
		76% of Pokagon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
		Housing units in Pokagon township with a mortgage: 6 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
	www.city-data.com /township/Pokagon-Cass-MI.html (449 words)

	Michigan Indian Gaming: 2001 Newsworthy Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The taxpayers group claimed the Pokagon Band’s application to acquire the property, which required environmental and economic impact studies was flawed.
		The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians entered into a Class III Gaming Compact with the State of Michigan in December of 1998.
		The 625-acre parcel the Pokagon Band has applied to the federal government to take into trust is located in New Buffalo Township, Michigan.
	www.michigangaming.com /IndGame/IGNews-01.html (2126 words)

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		In the early 1600s, French Jesuits ran across a group of Native Americans along the shores of Lake Michigan who called themselves "Potawatomi Keepers of the Fire." Under attack by the Iroquois, the Potawatomi migrated to the Dorr Peninsula in Northern Wisconsin to escape and returned to the St. Joseph River Valley around 1640.
		She holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Michigan State University and presents on topics ranging from conflict resolution and cross-cultural communications to the unique dynamics of adult learners.
	www.lakemichigancollege.edu /news/2002/010802-MLK_Cultural_Lecture.html (778 words)

	Federal ruling clears path for Pokagon casino : ICT [2006/01/13]
		This court decision is a monumental victory for the membership of the Pokagon Band, residents of southwest Michigan and all of Indian country,'' Pokagon Band Tribal Chairman John Miller said.
		Michigan tribes also face opposition from some of the state's congressional delegation.
		Gun Lake faces a lawsuit identical to the Pokagon's from a similar citizens group called MichGO, Michigan Gambling Opposition, which is connected to TOMAC through sharing the same law firm and public relations group.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?feature=yes&id=1096412266 (825 words)

	The Niles Star
		NILES - It's a possibility in the future that residents in the Barron Lake and surrounding area of Howard Township will have an ambulance reach their house a lot quicker in the case of an emergency.
		Announced Tuesday night during a meeting of the Howard Township Board, Clerk Shirley Tuttle said that Southwestern Michigan Community Ambulance Service (SMCAS) is looking into staffing an ambulance in the township, and that it is likely the City of Buchanan will be doing this also.
		It covers all of Howard Township and the southern portion of Pokagon Township located north of Howard Township.
	www.nilesstar.com /articles/2006/07/20/news/ndnews2.txt (746 words)

	Michigan Historical Marker: Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Chief Leopold Pokagon and his tribe of Potawatomi Indians built a log church here in 1838 and deeded the forty acres of land on which it stood to the Catholic Bishop of Detroit.
		Pokagon, who came to Silver Creek Township from his village outside of nearby Niles, was buried on this site in 1841.
		The white frame church built in 1861 burned in 1886 and was immediately replaced by the present structure.
	www.michmarkers.com /Pages/L0348.htm (148 words)

	The History of Cass County, Michigan :: The Southwest Michigan Directory
		Led by Leopold Pokagon, the band by 1837 had purchased 1,000 acres of land in Cass's Silver Creek Township, a traditional hunting area.
		The Potawatomis' leader during the second half of the century was Simon Pokagon, Leopold's son.
		Besides being the home of Pokagon's Potawatomis, Cass County was a haven for African Americans migrating north during the mid-nineteenth century.
	www.swmidirectory.org /History_of_Cass_County.html (1599 words)

	Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Receives Financing for $400 million Four Winds Casino Resort Outside New Buffalo, ...
		All funds drawn under the BofA credit agreement bear interest at the rate of LIBOR plus 6.25% per annum (subject to change pursuant to the terms of the BofA credit agreement), are due and payable on the fourth anniversary of the closing and are secured by substantially all of the material assets of Lakes.
		Chief Pokagon tried to persuade the United States government to pay the claims of his people for the sale of their land.
		It is estimated that there are nearly 3,000 tribal members of the Pokagon Band, approximately 1,500 of whom live in Michigan and Indiana.
	www.hotel-online.com /News/PR2006_2nd/Jun06_Pokagon.html (1149 words)

	Pokagon State Park, IN -- May 13-15 1999
		One was in Branch County, California Township, where James Lawrence had settled in the mid 1830s.
		He had left such a good description of the country when it was new, and of his misadventures in setting up a farm, that I wanted to go and look for myself.
		Chase was the founder of Kenyon College in Ohio, but after a dispute there went to Michigan.
	www.iserv.net /~jgorentz/bicycle/tours/199905pokagon.htm (1103 words)

	BTN, McNickle
		Cass County, Michigan; died August 13, 1924 in Farnam, Nebraska.
		Township, Cass County, Michigan, and died August 13, 1924 in Farnam, Nebraska.
		County, Pokagon, Michigan; died August 25, 1902 in Farnam, Nebraska.
	members.aol.com /kathyskin/myhomepage/BranchestoNutsMcNickle.html (448 words)

	Indianz.Com > News > Michigan tribe finally acquires land base for casino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		After more than six years of delays, a Michigan tribe finally claimed victory on Friday when the Bureau of Indian Affairs placed its land into trust.
		Michigan is home to more than 20 tribal and non-tribal gaming facilities but opposition groups have delayed the Pokagon Band's casino and casinos sought by three other tribes.
		As for the Pokagon Band, the tribe expects to start construction on the casino in late spring or early summer.
	indianz.com /News/2006/012264.asp (750 words)

	2006 News re: Michigan Indian Gaming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Pokagon Gaming Authority, a wholly owned, unincorporated instrumentality of the Pokagon Band of Potowatomi Indians, announced it had successfully closed its financing of $305 million in Senior Notes due 2014.
		The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians announced it will break ground June 3 on the $160 million Four Winds Casino Resort near Interstate 94 and Michigan 239 in New Buffalo Township, Mich. The first phase of the development, which includes a 124,000-square-foot casino, is scheduled to be completed within 10 to 14 months.
		The Pokagons are working with the Dept. of Interior to have the casino land placed in trust for their proposed $160 million project.
	www.michigangaming.com /IndGame/IGNews-06.html (535 words)

	Pokagon Casino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Tribe, New Buffalo Township, and the City of New Buffalo were all awarded status as intervening defendants after Judge James Robertson’s decision in March to remove the last remaining legal challenge by TOMAC to try and stop the Tribe’s casino.
		The Pokagon Restoration Act of 1994 passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton enables the Tribe to use gaming to support its tribal government and acquire a reservation in its aboriginal territory in Southwestern Michigan.
		In March Federal District Court Judge James Robertson ruled in favor of the Pokagon Band and dismissed the remainder of the suit filed by TOMAC in February 2001.
	www.fourwindscasino.com /news/?id=3185 (764 words)

	Dowagiac Daily News
		John Miller, chairman of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, welcomed the governor to the tribe's new outdoor pavilion at Rodgers Lake in Pokagon Township.
		The legend goes that when early explorers and mapmakers saw Michigan, they believed when God created the world and stopped to rest on the seventh day, put His - or Her - hand down on the globe to spin it on its axis and left an imprint.
		She was elected supervisor in 2004 and currently serves on the Southwestern Michigan Planning Commission, the Michigan Association of Regions, as a board member of the Michigan Townships Association and as key leader of a 4-H Club,” the M-40 Hustlers.
	www.dowagiacnews.com /articles/2006/04/17/news/dnnews2.txt (1073 words)

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	absolutemichigan.com /southwest (772 words)

	NATIVE NASHVILLE - TANASI NEWS - Pokagon Township
		The Pokagon Township Reservation site will provide a multi-use community for Tribal members and their families, including new homes on one or two-acre lots, a Community Center, Health Care facility, and Tribal Government Center, as well as educational, parks, and recreational facilities for children of the Tribe.
		The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians was recognized as a restored band by Congress in 1994.
		In January of 1999 the Department of Interior and the tribe reached a Memorandum of Understanding allowing the tribe to take up to 4,700 acres of land into trust in their traditional homelands.
	www.nativenashville.com /pokagon.htm (363 words)

	Amazon.com: Portage Township (Images of America): Books: Dennis Norman,James Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Portage became a town in 1959 and attained city status in 1967, but the regionís history begins with the indigenous Wey Indians of the 1700s and the Potowotamie, whose land was sold in 1834.
		Likewise the sources of none of their images are credited, although many of them have simply been copied out of earlier books, which is why some have those reprint bar patterns.
		It appears that one of these writers is not even familiar with parts of his township as he writes about them.
	www.amazon.com /Portage-Township-Images-America-Dennis/dp/0738523224 (1394 words)

	WWMT - Digital Channel 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Michael Dunnuck of Byron entered the plea yesterday in Cass County Circuit Court to second-degree murder in the death of 42-year-old William Whittaker.
		As part of the plea agreement, Dunnuck will receive a maximum 25-years in prison and will not be charged with perjury.
		The case was unsolved until it was reopened last year by Michigan State Police.
	www.wwmt.com /engine.pl?station=wwmt&id=29468&template=breakout_local.html (100 words)

	Tribal Observer: Southwest Michigan Tribes frustrated in casino attempts 2/28/2006
		The Pokagon Tribe, after years in court, recently won a federal court challenge and expects to open a casino near New Buffalo in 2007.
		They point to the newly renovated Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City, Ind., which would be less than 15 miles from the one in New Buffalo the Pokagon Tribe wants to open.
		Like the Pokagon Band, the Nottawaseppi Tribe already has a compact allowing it to open a casino in place with the state of Michigan, signed in 1998.
	www.sagchip.org /tribalobserver/article.asp?article=1205 (711 words)

	Tribal Observer: Court ruling clears path for Pokagon casino development 7/5/2005
		The perseverance and patience of the Pokagon people is a testament to the generations that came before us.
		The Pokagons will now urge the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Indian Affairs to move forward with its decision to take the land into trust.
		There are nearly 3,000 Tribal members of the Pokagon Band, about 1,500 of which live in Michigan and Indiana.
	www.sagchip.org /tribalobserver/article.asp?article=1115 (626 words)

	Casino City Newsletter: Issue 300\Volume 6 Page 1
		NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP, Michigan – After six years of delay, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians is finally breaking ground last week for Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo Township.
		The ground breaking will be a celebration of progress for the Pokagon Band as we move forward on the road to self-reliance and begin the construction phase on our tribal project," said Chairman Miller.
		The Pokagon Band will pay two percent of electronic game revenue payment to a designated Local Revenue Sharing and eight percent to the Michigan Strategic Fund as required by the 1998 tribal-state gaming compacts.
	newsletter.casinocity.com /Issue300/page1.htm (815 words)

	Dowagiac Daily News
		Foes of the Dowagiac-based Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians squared off in federal appeals court in Washington Thursday to block construction of the tribe's Four Winds Casino resort in Berrien County's New Buffalo Township.
		The Pokagon Band, New Buffalo Township and the City of New Buffalo qualified as intervening defendants after Judge James Robertson's March decision to remove the last legal hurdle from TOMAC to thwart the casino.
		The Pokagon Restoration Act of 1994 passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton enables the tribe to use gaming to support its government and to acquire a reservation in its “aboriginal territory” in southwest Michigan, according to a statement the Pokagon Band issued.
	www.dowagiacnews.com /articles/2005/12/09/news/dnnews2.txt (681 words)

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