Keweenaw Bay Indian Community

Keweenaw Bay Indians' Fight Against Michigan Mine Detailed in Series

ICTMN Staff

November 11, 2012

As Kennecott Eagle Minerals lurches toward completing its plan to begin mining copper and nickel from tribal lands in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula beginning in 2014, the fight...

Michigan Gas Stations Pull Racks of Local Newspaper Endorsing a Tribe's Proposed Low Pump Prices

Anne Minard

June 25, 2012

Members of Michigan’s Keweenaw Bay Indian Community looking to build a gas station near their reservation have landed in the middle of a public drama over apparently inflated gas p...

Echo Hawk Approves One Gaming Site, Rejects Another

Gale Courey Toensing

December 29, 2011

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has approved a land-into-trust application for gaming for a Michigan nation and has denied an application for a New York nation because it was incomple...

Young American Indian Warrior Gives His Life Willingly for Country and Family

Brenda Austin

July 09, 2011

An outstanding young man and a role model for youth his age in the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Spec. Robert L. Voakes Jr...

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