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.

Shab-eh-nay, who was born about 1775 and died in 1859, was promised land in northern Illinois in an 1829 treaty, but the government sold it to white settlers in about 1848.

It's not entirely the same soil that the U.S. took from Chief Shab-eh-nay. The boundaries of his original 1,280-acre reservation now encompass hundreds of acres of privately owned land, a golf ...

To right the wrong, Illinois would transfer a 1,500-acre (607-hectare) state park west of Chicago, which was named after Shab-eh-nay, to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.

Illinois may soon return land stolen from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation to the tribe. TNS Around 1848, the US sold the land to white settlers while Shab-eh-nay and other members ...

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 ...

Illinois may soon return land the US stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief 175 years ago. Published: Jun. 28, 2024, 10:00 a.m. Prairie Band Potawatomi Chief Shab-eh-nay, ...

Nothing ever changed the 1829 treaty that Chief Shab-eh-nay signed with the US government to preserve for him a reservation in northern Illinois: not subsequent accords nor the 1830 Indian Removal ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — 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 ...