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Committee backs renaming section of M‑22 to honor Company K, First Michigan Sharpshooters
Summary
The House Transportation Infrastructure Committee voted 15‑0 to report House Bill 50 78, which would rename a portion of M‑22 in Leelanau County as the Company K Indian Veterans First Michigan Sharpshooters Civil War Memorial Highway. Representative John Roth testified on the unit’s Civil War service and asked for committee support.
Representative John Roth urged the committee to approve House Bill 50 78 to rename a stretch of M‑22 for Company K, a Civil War unit he described as composed “almost entirely of Anishinaabe men, primarily Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi.” He recounted the unit’s…
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