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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 ...
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.
The North American Association of Indian Students (NAAIS) is an American nonprofit organization that supports Indian and Indian-American students studying in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The organization aims to connect a variety of Indian groups on college and university campuses to create better resources for Indian and Indian-American ...
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 ...
During this removal, a group of Tribal Members escaped and returned to their native lands in Michigan. In 1845, Chief Moguago purchased a 120-acre parcel of land along the Pine Creek, and established the Pine Creek Indian Reservation. [2] With the help of Europeans in nearby Athens, the Potawatomi constructed several houses and a school. [3]
Mosey retired at the end of last year after serving as Midtown Detroit Inc.'s first director. The organization's board voted late last week to approve Stapleton for a one-year contract.
Indian Village is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan, bounded to the north and south by Mack Avenue and East Jefferson Avenue, respectively, along the streets of Burns, Iroquois, and Seminole. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [1]
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 ...