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The Pokagon Band Gaming Commission was established the in 2007 as an independent subdivision. The Gaming Commission regulates all gaming conducted within Pokagon Band jurisdiction under the Gaming Regulatory Act, the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and the tribal-state Gaming Compact between the Band and the State of Michigan and Indiana ...
Simon Pokagon (c. 1830- January 28, 1899) was a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, an author, and a Native American advocate. He was born near Bertrand in southwest Michigan Territory and died on January 28, 1899, in Hartford, Michigan. Dubbed the "Red Man's Longfellow " by literary fans, Pokagon was often called the "Hereditary ...
Simon Pokagon. Leopold Pokagon (c. 1775 – 1841) was a Potawatomi Wkema (leader). Taking over from Topinbee, who became the head of the Potawatomi of the Saint Joseph River Valley in Michigan, a band that later took his name.
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi (also known as the Gun Lake tribe), based in Dorr in Allegan County, Michigan; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, based in Calhoun County, Michigan; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; and; Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas (and since 2024 Illinois).
Four Winds Dowagiac. Four Winds Hartford. Four Winds New Buffalo. Categories: Anishinaabe tribes. Federally recognized tribes in the United States. Native American tribes in Indiana. Native American tribes in Michigan. Potawatomi.
O-gi-maw-kwe Mit-i-gwa-ki (Queen of the Woods) is a novel by Simon Pokagon, published in 1899 shortly after his death. The novel was written as a testimony to the Potawatomi traditions, stability, and continuity in a rapidly changing society. Today, Queen of the Woods is read as Simon Pokagon's desire to mark the cultural, political, and social ...
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, in southwestern Michigan and northeastern Indiana, announced on March 9, 2013, that a law recognizing same-sex marriages would enter into force on May 8, 2013. [97] They issued their first such marriage certificate to a male couple on June 20, 2013. [98]
S. Michael Schofield (lacrosse) Categories: Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. Potawatomi.