Ms. Que Banh<p>The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GrandTraverseBand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandTraverseBand</span></a> of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChippewaIndians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChippewaIndians</span></a> is one step closer regaining <a href="https://beige.party/tags/tribal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tribal</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ownership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ownership</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://beige.party/tags/stewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stewardship</span></a> of a 187-acre chunk of land on the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LeelanauPeninsula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeelanauPeninsula</span></a>.</p><p>The land that became <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TimberShores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimberShores</span></a> was <a href="https://beige.party/tags/illegally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illegally</span></a> transferred to private ownership in 1855.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NOAA</span></a> is giving more than $6.5 million for the purchase of the Timber Shores site. It's also chipping in on <a href="https://beige.party/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>restoration</span></a> efforts. The money comes from a larger $11-million pool that also funds continued work on the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FishPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FishPass</span></a> project in the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BoardmanOttawayRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardmanOttawayRiver</span></a>.</p><p>The remaining amount for the purchase, roughly $3.5 million, will come from a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Leelanau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leelanau</span></a> County nonprofit called <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NewCommunityVision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewCommunityVision</span></a>, which negotiated a $10 million purchase of the land. The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonprofit</span></a> says it's still $2 million away from that amount but expects to have it by the end of 2024.</p><p>Under the agreement, New Community Vision will purchase the land, then transfer it to the Grand Traverse Band for restoration &amp; <a href="https://beige.party/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a>. It will be renamed <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Mashkiigaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mashkiigaki</span></a>, which means marsh lands &amp; place of the medicine.</p><p>The tribe’s <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NaturalResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalResources</span></a> Department will restore Mashkiigaki’s shoreline, wetlands &amp; creek corridor, which are important spawning grounds for cisco &amp; other native fish species.</p><p><a href="https://radio.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2024-07-19/former-timber-shores-site-closer-to-becoming-tribally-owned-nature-preserve" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">radio.wcmu.org/local-regional-</span><span class="invisible">news/2024-07-19/former-timber-shores-site-closer-to-becoming-tribally-owned-nature-preserve</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Landback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Landback</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousLand</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeLand</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EcoJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcoJustice</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GoodNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoodNews</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a></p>