The Catholic band's distinct course, told whole

From Leopold Pokagon's mission decade to Simon Pokagon's printing press to the business committee Congress found still governing in 1994 — the band as a people, not only as an exception

The band’s course, at the boundary size this ground allows: the Pokagon Band’s distinct course as a Michigan people — Leopold Pokagon’s mission decade and the Catholic villages from Hartford, Rush Lake, Dowagiac, Niles and Buchanan to South Bend; the 874 acres bought on Silver Creek in Cass County; Simon Pokagon’s print campaign; the heirs’ and the Church’s land disputes; the long unrecognised century and the self-government Congress found still standing in 1994 — belongs whole to the Michigan and South Bend builds, and is not retold here. This ground’s share is real and small, and it stands in this section's own articles: the cession that took the ground, the Catholic exception that let the band remain, the succession the instruments show, and the service area that reaches this ground today. (Pointer-reduced at assembly on the depth audit’s boundary finding, §10 V-8; the banked telling stands whole in the research folder.)

Sources: Low (2011) — the Detroit journey of July 1830, the Badin mission of August 1830, the villages united in the Pokegnek Bodewadmik and the new identity stated; Buechner, The Pokagons (1933) — the log church recollection and the village record, at her strength; Clifton, The Pokagons, 1683–1983 (1984) — the Silver Creek purchase of 874 acres, as carried in Before the City; the Ransom opinion and Brady's honouring of it, and Pokagon's death on 8 July 1841, as carried in the companion legs; the standard biographical record of Leopold Pokagon (compiled from Clifton and the Bwakajig) — the Silver Creek disputes and the dispersal to Brush Creek and Rush Lake; The Birch-Bark Booklets of Simon Pokagon (Michigan History, by the Pokagon Band's archivist Blaire Topash-Caldwell, 2018) — Simon's birth near Bertrand about 1830, his mother Elizabeth (Ketesse) Topinabee, his death 28 January 1899 at Hartford, the works and their Hartford publisher, the "Last Hereditary Chief" label and its correction, and the booklets' return to the band's archives; Public Law 103-323, §1(5), (6), (9), (10) (25 U.S.C. §1300j) — the petitions from 1935, the 1939 administrative decision, the Business Committee and Tribal Council, the continuous dealings; the band's 2024 council announcement — John P. Warren's pre-recognition council service and the Notre Dame law school draft.