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Native America Calling: Illinois’ first Native reservation
Monday, May 13, 2024
Illinois’ first Native reservation
A tribe once targeted for termination has established the first reservation in the state of Illinois.
The U.S. Department of Interior transferred 130 acres of Northern Illinois land to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. The action comes 175 years after the federal government illegally sold the tribe’s Illinois land — ten times the current trust land size — when the chief was out of the state visiting family.
Join Native America Calling to hear about the new land transaction and other recent notable land achievements.
Guests on Native America Calling
Joseph “Zeke” Rupnick (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation), Chairman of Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, headquartered in Kansas.
Joe Heath, general counsel for Onondaga Nation
Sara K. Van Norman, founder of Van Norman Law
Samantha MJ Yang (Gabrieleño Tongva Band of Mission Indians), environmental biologist and ethnobotanist
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