Illinois is poised to right a 175-year-old wrong by returning land in northern Illinois guaranteed to a Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation chief in 1829.
Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation while he was away visiting relatives, Illinois may soon return it to the tribe.Nothing ever changed the 1829 treaty that Chief Shab-eh-nay signed with the U.S. government to preserve for him a reservation in northern Illinois : not subsequent accords nor the 1830 Indian Removal Act, which forced all indigenous people to move west of the Mississippi. But around 1848, the U.S.
'Instead, the tribe has offered a compromise, which is to say, 'We'll take the entirety of the park and give up our claim to the private land and the county land and the rest of that land,'' Guzzardi said. 'That's a better deal for all parties involved.'The proposed transfer of the park, which is 68 miles west of Chicago, won Senate approval in the final days of the spring legislative session. But a snag in the House prevented its passage.
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