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As of 2012, the Indian populations of Farmington Hills and Troy are among the twenty largest Indian communities in the United States. [2] As of the 2000 U.S. Census there were 39,527 people with origins from post-partition India (Indians and Indian Americans ) in Metro Detroit, [ 3 ] making them the largest Asian ethnic group in the Wayne ...
They used the building until 1983, nearly the last example of the fur industry that helped found Detroit nearly 300 years earlier. [5] In 1988 the Law Firm of Patterson, Phifer, and Phillips hired Frank Z. Martin to refurbish the building. [5] Both L. B. King and Company and Annis Furs were prominent commercial firms in the history of Detroit. [2]
The Treaty of Detroit of 1855 was a treaty between the United States Government and the Ottawa and Chippewa Nations of Indians of Michigan. The treaty contained provisions to allot individual tracts of land to Native people consisting of 40-acre (16 ha) plots for single individuals and 80-acre (32 ha) plots for families, outlined specific tracts which were assigned to the various bands and ...
Location of the Grand Traverse Indian Reservation in Michigan The territory of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians is the Grand Traverse Indian Reservation ( 45°01′13″N 85°36′22″W / 45.02028°N 85.60611°W / 45.02028; -85.60611 ), as established by United States Secretary of the Interior on 27 May 1980 ...
The Treaty of Detroit was a treaty between the United States and the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot and Potawatomi Native American nations. The treaty was signed in Detroit, Michigan on November 17, 1807, with William Hull , governor of the Michigan Territory and superintendent of Indian affairs, the sole representative of the U.S. [ 2 ]
The Sault Tribe gained federal recognition by the United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs on September 7, 1972. [8] The tribe did not have a historic reservation from a previous treaty. As part of the process, the federal government took land in trust for the tribe by deed dated May 17, 1973, and approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on ...
The American Indian Defense Association, headed by John Collier, was established to oppose the Bursum and the Leavitt Bills, both of which sought to end Pueblo ties to their lands and outlaw cultural practices. These groups merged in the 1930s and eventually consolidated under the name the Association on American Indian Affairs.
In Michigan, three main groups organizing through the 1930s and 1940s were the Michigan Indian Defense Association (1933), the Michigan Indian Foundation (1941), and the Northern Michigan Ottawa Association (NMOA) (1948). The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa was known as the NMOA, Unit 1, as there were other bands represented in this group.