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As of November 2026
The descendant nations of the valley's Potawatomi stand in Michigan, Kansas, Oklahoma and Wisconsin today. The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians — the band that remained in the St. Joseph valley's north, its federal recognition reaffirmed by act of Congress in 1994 — is seated at Dowagiac, Michigan, and is the valley's own descendant nation, the one whose citizens' ancestors treated for this county. The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Kansas descends in part from the bands removed from Indiana in 1838. The Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Oklahoma and the Forest County Potawatomi Community in Wisconsin carry the nation's other great branches. In the record reached for this build there is no tribal trust land in Liberty Township, and no tribal office or enterprise in the town; the connection between this townsite and the modern nations is the cession itself, dated and printed in the land section, and it is carried as the living fact it is — the ground has a first nation still — not as a closed chapter.