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As of November 2026; each nation's own published voice first
The nation whose own account covers this ground is the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. In its own words: "We are the Pokégnek Bodéwadmik (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi), the Neshnabek (the Original People)… We are the descendants of the allied Potawatomi villages located along the St. Joseph, Paw Paw, and Kalamazoo Rivers in what is now southwest Michigan and northwest Indiana," with tribal teachings carrying an origin "along the St. Joseph River near what is now Mishawaka, Indiana." Federal recognition was reaffirmed 21 September 1994 (the Pokagon Restoration Act, Public Law 103-323), whose findings name the Band "the descendant of, and political successor to, the signatories of" eleven treaties — including Chicago 1821, the very instrument that takes this townsite, and Chicago 1833 — and record at least 1,500 members then residing "close to their ancestral homeland in the St. Joseph River Valley in southwestern Michigan and northern Indiana." The Band's government is headquartered at Dowagiac, Michigan, with a ten-county service area reaching into northwest Indiana and a satellite office in South Bend. The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma stands at pointer for this ground: in its own account it originates "from the Great Lakes region where our homelands lie within the boundaries of the states of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, lower Michigan, and lower Wisconsin," its forced removal running from eastern Indiana in 1846, its government at Miami, Oklahoma with a cultural resources office in Fort Wayne since 2015 — no Miami carrier reached ties the Tribe to Clay Township specifically. The Miami Nation of Indiana, a separate Indiana-based government, does not hold federal recognition (terminated 1897; a 1993 ruling held the appeal period expired) and prints at pointer only. The Citizen Potawatomi Nation (Shawnee, Oklahoma) enters at pointer on one connection only: its Mission Band's removal is the 1838 Trail of Death from Twin Lakes — no carrier reached ties it to this townsite, and it is not presented as a nation of this ground.