The modern nations, in their own published voices

PRESENT STATUS AS OF NOVEMBER 2026

The valley's Potawatomi nations stand today as federally recognized tribal governments, and this section prints their present at the strength of their own published record: the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians — the excepted band of the article above, restored to federal recognition by Public Law 103-323 in 1994 — governs from its Michigan seat and holds, since the restoration, ground downriver in this valley: trust land taken into trust at South Bend in 2016, where its Four Winds South Bend casino opened in February 2018. That ground is South Bend's, carried in that build at its size; here it stands at boundary size as the nearest standing fact of the valley's first people to this township — a Potawatomi government holding land in this county again, seventeen miles west. No tribal land in Penn Township appears in any record reached for this build, and none is claimed. The Citizen Potawatomi Nation, the removed people's successor government in Oklahoma, keeps the 1838 column's own account — the militia, the burned fields and houses, the leaders shackled in a wagon at the column's head — and its telling is carried in this build's Before the City at the strength of a nation's memory of its own removal. The other successor nations of the valley's signatories — the Hannahville Indian Community, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, and the Potawatomi nations of Wisconsin, Kansas and Oklahoma — stand in their own published voices in the sister builds; this section adds nothing to their record and takes nothing from it. What belongs to this township alone is the negative that runs through every article above: the nations endure, their governments publish, their ground in this valley stands at South Bend and across the Michigan line — and Penn Township's part in their present is the part the record gives it, a ceded, surveyed, farmed township whose first people's presence in it is now documentary.