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THE BAND THAT WAS NEVER REMOVED — POINTER SIZE
One body of the valley's Potawatomi was never removed, and the mechanism is part of this ground's record because the same treaty-making carved it. Leopold Pokagon's band — the Catholic Potawatomi of the St. Joseph valley — held their ground through the exception written for them in the Treaty of Chicago of 1833, removing only across the state line into Michigan, to the Silver Creek country in Cass County, and stand today as the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, their federal standing confirmed by Public Law 103-323 in 1994. The band's full record is carried at full strength in this build's South Bend leg, where its ground lies. For this ground the bearing is exact and limited: no Pokagon reserve touched Lincoln Township, the band's villages stood on the river a day's travel north, and the people Wiley found as his near neighbors were not Pokagon's. The exception is printed because a taking-article that names no exception would misstate how the valley's people met the treaties: one band, by one mechanism, held. It was not this township's band, and its ground was never this ground.