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From: "CATHERINE DAVIDS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: The University of Michigan - Flint
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:21:00 EDT
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Subject: Re: Tribe Officially Recognized
The Flint Journal
Associated Press Report
Saturday, August 28, 1999
Tribe Officially Recognized
Against the city of Detroit's wishes, the federal government
officially has recognized the Matach-e-be-nash-she-wish band of
Potawatomi Indians of Michigan as a sovereign Indian nation.
In January, Detroit had temporarily blocked federal recognition of
the tribe in southwestern Michigan out of concern it would establish a
rival casino near Detroit.
The designation allows the tribe - also known as the Gun Lake Band
- to get the same federal health, education, and housing subsidies
enjoyed by hundreds of other federally recognized tribes nationwide.
U.S. Interior Department Secretary Bruce Babbitt cleared the last
hurdle for the tribe, denying Detroit's claim it had "interested party"
status and could therefore interfere in the recognition status.
"I guess there is justice after all," said D.K. Sprague, chairman of the
150-member tribe based in Allegan County, just south of Grand Rapids.
"It's like David and Goliath, and like David, we won in s pite of all the
power and might of the city of Detroit."
In January, Dennis J. Whittlesey, a lawyer for the city of Detroit,
had argued the tribe was considering locating a casino 40 miles south of
Detroit. That, he said, would affect Detroit's bids to successfully set
up its own casinos.
"We think that makes Detroit an interested party," Whittlesey had
said.
Michelle Zdrodowski, a spokeswoman for Detroit Mayor Dennis
Archer, on Friday night declined comment.
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Catherine Davids
Flint, Michigan
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