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More tribal nations are getting their land back

In 1829, the U.S. government promised the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation about 1,280 acres of Illinois reservation. It instead illegally sold it all to white settlers. In a recent reversal, the Prairie Band got some of their ancestral home back.

Harvest Public Media’s Peter Medlin reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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