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A tested negative, its search shown — no nation's trust land, office or institution stands in Clay or Harris township in any record
The assignment for this section directed that any band institution or land on Granger ground be tested, not assumed. The test was run against four records. The Census Bureau's geography for the Pokagon Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land — the federal area numbered 2890 in the Bureau's current boundary files — maps the band's Indiana trust parcels at the South Bend site; no parcel lies in Clay or Harris township. The band's own published addresses give the government at Dowagiac and the enterprises and offices at New Buffalo, Hartford, Dowagiac and South Bend; no Granger address appears. The state record — the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's documentation of the 2016 trust determination — segments the South Bend site's ground and says nothing of any parcel in this ground's townships. And the wider federal frame agrees: the State of Indiana's emergency plan of March 2025 counts exactly two federally recognised tribes holding Indiana land, the Pokagon Band at South Bend and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma at Fort Wayne, neither of them here. The negative is therefore printed with its search: no Pokagon Band trust land, no band office, no tribal institution of any nation stands on the Harris Prairie upland or anywhere in Clay or Harris township in the records searched.
What does stand on this ground is stated at its own strength, so the negative is not mistaken for an absence of connection. The ground lies inside the band's statutory service area — St. Joseph County, Indiana, is one of the six Indiana counties named in § 1300j-6 — and the band's citizens live across that service area, including, in the ordinary course of a county's life, in this ground's subdivisions; the only Granger addresses tied to the band in public filings are private individuals' residences, and this section does not print the residences of living people. Presence here is civic and statutory, not territorial: a Pokagon citizen in Granger is served by a nation whose seat is forty miles north, whose nearest trust land is in South Bend, and whose treaty ancestors ceded this ground in 1828 and kept their homeland on the river above it. That is the whole of the modern record for this ground, and the leg prints it whole rather than inflating a service area into a settlement or shrinking a statute into nothing.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Boundary and Annexation Survey geography (2025) — the Pokagon Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land, area 2890, its Indiana parcels at the South Bend site; the Pokagon Band's published government and enterprise addresses; Indiana Department of Environmental Management, the 2016 final determination record for the South Bend trust land (165.81 acres); 25 U.S.C. § 1300j-6 — the service area; State of Indiana Emergency Operations Plan (March 2025) — two federally recognised tribes holding Indiana land, the Pokagon Band and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.