Preserve History Sources:
Gun Lake Tribe (Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians), "Heritage" — Three Fires Confederacy membership, the Kalamazoo River valley village, the 1821 Treaty reservation, the ceded 1827 reserve with no payment or land provided, the northward moves and settlement near Gun Lake at Bradley circa 1838, and the August 23, 1999 recognition date. https://gunlaketribe-nsn.gov/about/heritage/
Kalamazoo Public Library, "Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish" (Local History) — the 1821 Treaty of Chicago as the first cession affecting the Ottawa and Pottawatomi along the Kalamazoo River, and the Band's continuous presence in southwest Michigan. https://www.kpl.gov/local-history/kalamazoo-history/native-americans/match-e-be-nash-she-wish/
Kalamazoo Public Library, "How Kalamazoo Got Its Name" — the "boiling water/pot" translations, the "reflecting river" alternative, and the caveat that the true meaning is unrecoverable. https://www.kpl.gov/local-history/kalamazoo-history/general/how-kalamazoo-got-its-name/
Wikipedia, "Etymology of Kalamazoo" — the early recorded spelling "kikalamezo" (on an 1823 atlas) and the range of competing translations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Kalamazoo
Treaty of St. Joseph (1827), full text — cession of the local reservations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_St._Joseph
Treaty of Chicago (1833) — cession of remaining lands and the removal provision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1833_Treaty_of_Chicago
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Tribal Justice, "Frequently Asked Questions about Native Americans" — federal recognition as a government-to-government relationship and the meaning of tribal self-governance. https://www.justice.gov/otj/about-native-americans
Western Michigan University, "History," "Historical Report," and "Kalamazoo State Hospital," Asylum Lake Preserve — the Hunt purchase, the Hindes farm, the 1887 asylum acquisition, the Colony Farm and its cottages, and the conservation history. https://wmich.edu/asylumlake/history
Kalamazoo Public Library, "KPH Brook and Colony Farms" (Local History) — Brook Farm (1885) as the first farm colony, the expansion to the Colony Farm at the former Hindes Farm in 1887, the "Fair Oaks" name, and the lake taking the Asylum name. https://www.kpl.gov/local-history/kalamazoo-history/health/kph-brook-and-colony-farms/
WMUK, "'Why's That?' Explores the Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital's Farming Days" (2017) — the farm system's mid-century decline, the 1957 state order closing the hospital farms, and the demolition of the Asylum Lake cottages in the early 1970s. https://www.wmuk.org/wmuk-news/2017-01-13/whys-that-explores-the-kalamazoo-psychiatric-hospitals-farming-days
Mark A. Hoffman, "Asylum Lake Preserve and Colony Farm Orchard: A Legislative and Decision Making Timeline for the Former Kalamazoo State Hospital Properties" (2016), hosted by Western Michigan University — detailed parcel and legislative history, including the 1975 Public Act 316 transfer and restriction, the separately-conveyed farmland south of Parkview developed as the BTR Park, and the 2004 Declaration of Conservation Restrictions. https://files.wmich.edu/s3fs-public/attachments/u929/2016/ALPMC%202011%20,%202012.pdf
Asylum Lake Preservation Association, "The History of Asylum Lake and the Surrounding Land" — the naming debate and the state representative's argument for retaining the "Asylum" name. https://www.asylumlakepreservationassociation.org/news/the-history-of-asylum-lake-and-the-surrounding-land
Asylum Lake Preservation Association, "History of ALPA" — the 1990 opposition to WMU's development proposal and the founding of ALPA. https://www.asylumlakepreservationassociation.org/history-of-alpa