From the Port Huron Times Herald: “Stupak’s bill is the latest of several attempts to win congressional and presidential approval of the Aug. 23, 2002, land swap approved by then-Gov. John Engler and Bay Mills, a Chippewa band based at Brimley in the eastern Upper Peninsula.“The tribe gave up its long-standing claim to 110 acres of property at Charlotte Beach, a community on the St. Marys River, in exchange for a reservation on the 15-acre Thomas Edison Inn property in Port Huron.”
Details about H.R. 2176 are here.
Bay Mills’ claim against the State of Michigan in regards to Charlotte Beach was dismissed in 2001 by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The opinion is here.
Turtle Talk 
I am currently doing a title search in regards to the deed I have. I am a Sault tribe Member and a Mackinac Band Member and my grandfather was a Traverse city member. Take a look at the blog I made about Charlottes beach area.
Thank you.
http://charlottebeach.blogspot.com/