The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians of Michigan will no longer be doing business with a tribe whose executives have been accused of financial mismanagement.

The Little Traverse Bay Bands entered into a partnership with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. But Frank Ettawageshik, the president of the Waganakising Odawa Development Inc., said the relationship is over.

“It’s become apparent that partnership is not going to continue to exist,” Ettawageshik said at a council meeting, The Petoskey News-Review reported. he said the tribe needs to amend the Waganakising Odawa corporate charter to allow the entity to do business with other firms.

The Northwestern Band suspended two top executives of its NWB Economic Development last November for alleged misuse of tribal funds.

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Tribe's partnership with Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation dissolves (The Petoskey News-Review 2/8)

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