The modern nations, as of November 2026

Pointer strength, ties stated

Three nations stand in the record of this valley; each is carried at the strength of its tie to this ground. The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, federally recognized, its recognition affirmed by act of Congress on 21 September 1994 (Pub. L. 103-323): the statute's findings name the Band the descendant and political successor of the signatories of, among others, the Treaties of Chicago 1821, Mississinewa 1826, St. Joseph 1827 and 1828, Tippecanoe River 1832 and Chicago 1833 — the instruments of this ground's own cession course — whose members "continue to reside close to their ancestral homeland in the St. Joseph River Valley in southwestern Michigan and northern Indiana," and its statutory service area includes St. Joseph County, Indiana, expressly. Seat: Dowagiac, Michigan. That service-area line is the direct modern tie between the nation of this ground and Lakeville's county. The Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma, named in the same findings among the recognized descendants of the same signatories, carries the Trail of Death as its own ancestors' removal in its published account — the nation whose 1838 course began at Twin Lakes, south of this town. The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, the federally recognized nation of the Myaamia people, is carried at pointer strength only, on the two ties printed in the nations test above — the portage village in the county's north and the joint character of the 1826 road cession — with the negative for this ground printed beside it there. No tribal trust land, tribal office or tribal enterprise in Union Township or Lakeville was reached, printed as a reached-record negative in the sister build's form.