The Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi (Gun Lake Tribe) will be releasing 21 lake sturgeon into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan on September 1. The release will take place during the annual Nmé Celebration where hundreds of community members gather for the release of the fish, known as nmé in the Pottawatomi language, which were raised through the tribe’s lake sturgeon rehabilitation program Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.
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