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By LOU MUMFORD Tribune Staff Writer DOWAGIAC It pays to be sober.Largely because Leopold Pokagon was exactly that 178 years still paying off for the Dowagiac-based Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. more to the story, of the Indian sobriety and what he accomplished as a result were instrumental in the band ultimately obtaining legislation that reaffirmed its standing as a federally recognized sovereign na- tion.President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law 17 years ago this week. This tribe will celebrate the occasion with a free public Sovereignty Day concert from 6 to 9 p.m.today at its community Potawatomi Trail.Saturday has been set aside for and community activities for tribal members and staff at 58620 Sink Road. sovereignty? means the tribe has the right to govern it did prior to the arrival of European settlers. Federal recognition also set the wheels in motion for tribal programs the band to open its casino near New Buffalo that provides revenue to help operate those programs.

And likely none of it would be in place if Leopold chief in the early shunned alcohol. Mike Zimmerman historic preservation this week it was in the signing of the Treaty of Pokagon obtained a treaty addition that guaranteed his band the right to remain in Michigan.At the time, the tribe was camped in now Bertrand that land was among 32,000 acres ceded to the federal government in the treaty. Indian agents had little trouble obtaining the rights to such land in part because they made whiskey available to tribal leaders. Such practices were than they did the trick. But they for teetotaler who had converted to Catholicism just three years before.Zim- merman said Pokagon held out for the treaty stipulating that his band had five years to relocate to Indian lands in now the Petoskey and Traverse City area.

But when Pokagon journeyed to what he believed would be the new home in found that been ceded to the government through yet another treaty. Pokagon returned to the area just the annuity from the Chicago treaty to purchase property for his band in Silver Creek said. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 opened the door to sovereignty but the Pokagon Band was left out, as were many because the government have the money to accommodate them all with proper reservations. The attempt to reaffirm its standing with the government went nowhere for 60 years until U.S.Rep. Fred and then U.S.Rep.Tim to the federal promise to Leopold Pokagon as proof of the right to be recognized as a Michigan entity.

Sovereign nation status allows the band to have jurisdiction over tribal lands and the roughly 4,400 half of whom live in a 10-county service area.And although sovereignty made possible the Four Winds and Andy Pok- specialist, emphasized the enterprise is merely a means to an end. can reach more people with more trying to preserve what we said. Pokagon programs include their own education, social service and housing health tribal court and police department and even their own department of natural resources. Photo provided Members of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, based in Dowagiac, were among those lined up for a recent powwow grand entry ceremony. The tribe will celebrate the 17th anniversary of its federal reaffirmation with a series of events today and Saturday.

end A pedestrian makes his way across the footbridge near Century Center in South Bend on a late-summer afternoon earlier this week. Tribune Photo MARCUS MARTER A local resource for parents, grandparents, and families. Lending an ear Members of the audience listen intently Thursday night during a candidates forum at the Elks Lodge on McKinley Avenue in South Bend. The forum, sponsored by several local groups, was for candidates for mayor and at-large council seats in South Bend and Mishawaka. Read The Tribune in coming days for coverage of the event.

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