The Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians is now the last treaty tribe east of the Mississippi River that is not federally ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - A 6.4-acre park in the heart of downtown Grand Rapids was once the site of an Indigenous village.

The Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians, which is based in West Michigan, has been seeking federal recognition, and the ...

The Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians continue the fight for federal recognition crucial for accessing benefits.

The effort to gain greater legal status for a group of Native Americans in the heart of West Michigan has a renewed attempt ...

Michigan Senators Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters reintroduced legislation to grant recognition to the Grand River Bands of ...

Some Michigan tribes gained recognition through the administrative process, including the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians in 1980. Others took the legislative route to recognition.

“The Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians has made Michigan a better place and is worthy of full recognition from the federal government. This legislation will cut through the red tape the tribe ...

Ethel Cook was elected chief of the Ottawa Tribe in northeast Oklahoma in 2011. She would often say, "I'm here for my heart and my people." ...

The Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians has sent in a new round of proposed findings to secure approval from the U.S. Department of the Interior and receive its long-awaited federal recognition.

There are 12 federally recognized tribes in Michigan. But for some reason, the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians isn’t one of them.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians, whose ancestors first settled along the Grand River, continue their decades-long quest for federal recognition.