The Eagle Returns
The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: Michigan State University Press
Contents
Introduction
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pp. ix-xii
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This book is a survey of many aspects of the history of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. It is a governmental, legal, and political history, with an emphasis on the status of the tribe both as a treaty tribe and as the very first tribe recognized by the Department of the Interior...
1. The Story of the 1836 Treaty of Washington
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pp. 2-33
The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians is one of several Indian tribes who are signatories to the 1836 Treaty of Washington. These treaties brought together as a formal legal and political body the loose confederation of Indian communities or bands living in the Grand Traverse Bay region.2 ...
2. The Story of the 1855 Treaty of Detroit
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pp. 34-55
After the United States Senate abrogated many provisions of the 1836 Treaty of Washington without the consent of the Michigan Anishinaabek communities, the 1836 Treaty signatories sought a second treaty. The resulting Treaty of Detroit did little to benefit the Grand Traverse Anishinaabek...
3. The Story of the Dispossession of the Grand Traverse Band Land Base
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pp. 56-83
The 1855 Treaty of Detroit intended to solidify the Anishinaabe land base did not help at all. In perhaps the worst case of mass fraud and incompetence in American Indian political and legal history, the Grand Traverse Band suffered the near-complete dispossession of their lands. ...
4. The Story of the Federal Recognition of the Grand Traverse Band
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pp. 84-107
The story of the federal recognition of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians begins with the end of treaty times, when federal government bureaucrats, including the secretary of the Interior, practiced a policy that would later be called “administrative termination"...
5. The Story of the Grand Traverse Band’s Treaty Rights Fight
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pp. 108-147
During treaty times, the Grand Traverse Band Anishinaabek negotiated to preserve their right to stay in Michigan and their way of life, including the right to access the Great Lakes and inland fisheries and hunting and gathering grounds. But by the early twentieth century, overfishing dramatically...
6. The Story of the Development of Modern Tribal Law and Justice Systems
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pp. 148-167
Grand Traverse Band’s customs and traditions based on kinship have served as the foundation of the tribe’s law and justice system since time immemorial, but this ancient structure has been modernized in recent decades. One of the foundations of the good governance model developed...
7. The Story of the Grand Traverse Band’s Gaming Operations
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pp. 168-189
The Grand Traverse Band opened its first gaming hall in 1984, and its gaming operations—the Leelanau Sands Casino and the Turtle Creek Casino—remain the greatest sources of the revenue for the tribal government. ...
Afterword: Carcieri v. Salazar and the Band’s Future Land Base
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pp. 190-193
In 2009, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in Carcieri v. Salazar,1 a case involving the authority of the secretary of the Interior to acquire land in trust for the Narragansett Tribe in Rhode Island. Unfortunately, the Court’s decision indirectly implicated the authority...
Notes
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pp. 195-235
Bibliography
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pp. 237-248
Index [Includes Back Cover]
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pp. 249-257
E-ISBN-13: 9781609170042
Print-ISBN-13: 9781611860221
Publication Year: 2012
