Attention Tribal community: Task force participants needed
9/21/2018 11:38:00 AM - Ziibiwing Cultural Center

Would you like to participate on an event planning group to commemorate

the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Saginaw of 1819? The

Treaty of Saginaw, also known as the Treaty with the Chippewa, was made

between Gen. Lewis Cass and Chief Mash Kee Yosh, Chief John Okemos,

Chief Wasso and other Native American tribes of the Great Lakes region

(principally the Ojibwe, but also the Ottawa and Potawatomi) in what is

now the United States, on Sept. 24, 18 I 9.

The task of tbe group will be to p lan event(s) for next year, 2019.

Meetings will be held bi-monthly.

The first meeting will take place on:

Monday, Sept. 24 at 3 p.m.

Ziibiwing Center - Research Center Immersion Room

For more information, please contact:

• Erik Rodriguez I Public Re/a/ions Direc/or I 989.775.4076

• William Johnson I Interim Tribal Ilisloric Preservation Officer 1989.775.4730