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Notre Dame honors Potawatomi land 180 years after Fr. Sorin’s arrival
Angela Mathew | Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Nov. 26 marked 180 years since Fr. Sorin’s arrival in 1842 on the land now known as South Bend and as home to the tri-campus community. This land is the ancestral home of the Pokégnek Bodéwadmik, which are the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, an indigenous nation. The Potawatomi migrated from north of Lake Huron and Lake Superior