Potawatomi
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The Potawatomi (), also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are an Indigenous North American tribe of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian family. They are additionally First Nations in Canada. The Potawatomi call themselves Neshnabé, a cognate of the word Anishinaabe. The Potawatomi are part of a long-term alliance, called the Council of Three Fires, with the Ojibwe and Odawa (Ottawa). In the Council of Three Fires, the Potawatomi are considered the "you
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Potawatomi
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Bodéwadmi
- Ethnic group.image
- Potawatomi 1920.gif
- Ethnic group.caption
- Potawatomi at a rain dance in 1920
- Ethnic group.population
- 48,000+
- Ethnic group.popplace
- (Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Illinois) (Ontario)
- Ethnic group.religions
- Catholicism, Methodism, Potawatomi religion, Midewiwin
- Ethnic group.languages
- English, Potawatomi
- Ethnonym.person
- Bodéwadmi(Neshnabé)
- Ethnonym.people
- Bodéwadmik(Neshnabék)
- Ethnonym.language
- Bodwéwadmimwen(Neshnabémwen)Hand Talk
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- Instance of
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Subclass of
- indigenous peoples of North America
- Part of
- First Nations
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- animism
- Country
- Canada
- Official language
- English language
- Population
- 43000
- Location
- Kansas
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Encyclopedic overview
28 sectionsContents
- Name
- Teachings
- History
- French period (1615–1763)
- British period (1763–1783)
- United States treaty period (1783–1830)
- Milwaukee Potawatomi
- Chicago Potawatomi
- Des Plaines and Fox River Potawatomi
- Illinois River Potawatomi
- Kankakee River (Iroquois and Yellow Rivers) Potawatomi
- St. Joseph and Elkhart Potawatomi
- Tippecanoe and Wabash River Potawatomi
- Fort Wayne Potawatomi
- American removal period (1830–1840)
- Bands
- United States
- Canada – First Nations with Potawatomi people
- Population
- Clans
- Ethnobotany
- Location
- Language
- Potawatomi people
- See also
- References
- Cited sources
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The Potawatomi (), also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are an Indigenous North American tribe of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian family. They are additionally First Nations in Canada. The Potawatomi call themselves Neshnabé, a cognate of the word Anishinaabe. The Potawatomi are part of a long-term alliance, called the Council of Three Fires, with the Ojibwe and Odawa (Ottawa). In the Council of Three Fires, the Potawatomi are considered the "youngest brother". Their people are referred to in this context as Bodéwadmi, a name that means "keepers of the fire" and refers to the council fire of three peoples.
In the 19th century, some bands of Potawatomi were pushed to the west by European/American encroachment. In the 1830s the federal government removed most from their lands east of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory—first in Kansas, Nebraska, and last to Oklahoma. Some bands survived in the Great Lakes region and today are federally recognized as tribes, in addition to the Potawatomi in Oklahoma.
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