Place:Peshawbestown, Leelanau, Michigan, United States

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NamePeshawbestown
TypeCommunity
Coordinates45.024°N 85.601°W
Located inLeelanau, Michigan, United States
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Peshawbestown is an unincorporated community in Suttons Bay Township of Leelanau in the U.S. state of Michigan. In historical documents, the name is spelled variously as Peshabetown, Peshabatown, Pshawbatown, Preshabestown.

The community is on M-22 about south of Northport, north of Suttons Bay, and about north of Traverse City. It is on the east side of the Leelanau Peninsula on the western shore of the Grand Traverse Bay.

Peshawbestown occupies about of the federally recognized Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians reservation. The primary economic base of the community is tourism, with the main feature being the Leelanau Sands Casino. Other notable feature include the historic Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church, dedicated to the first Native American saint in the Roman Catholic Church, who was canonized in 2012. She was a Mohawk woman who converted to Catholicism in New York in the French colonial period, later moving to Kahnawake near Montreal. The tribe holds the annual Peshawbestown Pow-Wow, which takes place each August with native foods, tribal art, and dancing.

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