FDI - Potawatomi

The Potawatomi were a sedentary hunter/farmer nation comprised of three or more tribes. They fissioned late from the Chippewa and Ottawa and removed south to Michigan. They apparently controlled all but the southeast portion of the Michigan lower peninsula prior to White arrival.. They sided with the French in the colonial war and the British in the War of 1812. They had several conflict with Whites and other tribes resulting in numerous relocations and in the further fissioning of the nation.

Aboriginal Locations (Subdivisions)

MI (Huron, Prairie-Mascouten, Woods)

Present Locations

KA Prairie Band Potawatomi, Mayetta; Potawatomi Reservation, Horton

MI Hannahville Reservation, Wilson; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Athens

OK Citizen Band of Potawatomi, Community House, Shawnee

ON Caldwell First Nation, Caldwell

Year	*History*
1615	Huron mentioned Potawatomi to Champlain as being on the side of the "Great Fresh Water Sea"
1634	Met by French explorer Nicolet
1641	Displaced from lower Michigan peninsula by Iroquois in beginning of Beaver Wars
1667	300 warriors met Allouez
1670	Met by French near Green Bay, but soon established themselves on the Milwaukee River, at Chicago, and on the St. Joseph River
1673	Smallpox epidemic
1765	Gained more Illinois and southern Michigan territory with the conquest of the Illinois nation
1777	Sided with the British in the Revolutionary War
1795	Moved down Wabash against Miami protest
1812	Defeated by U.S.
1815	Sided with English against U.S. until peace
1841	Pushed across Mississippi by White settlers
1846	Disposed of Iowa lands and removed to Kansas while some bands moved to Wisconsin, Ontario, and Michigan
1861	Treaty with U.S.
1869	Some went to new reservation in Oklahoma near Kickapoo, a few accompanied Kickapoo to Mexico
1913	Hannahville, Michigan reservation established

Year	Total Population	KA	IL	IN	MI	OK	ON	WI	Source
1650	4,000								Mooney estimate
1700	3,500		1,000	1,000				1,500	NAHDB calculation
1800	3,000		1,500	500	500			500	NAHDB calculation
1900	2,750	650			50	1,600	200	250	NAHDB calculation
1910	2,440								Census
1923	2,227								US Indian Office
1930	1,854								BIA
1981	6,698								BIA (Oklahoma & Hannahville)
1989	6,349								BIA estimate
2000	26,662	4,312			9,571	10,617	182	980	Misc.
2000	25,700	4,300			9,600	10,600	200	1,000	NAHDB calculation

Potawatomi Sites:

British Period in the Northwest: 1760-1795 http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/Pot/Bhbp.html

Caldwell Potawatomi First Nation http://www.gospelcom.net/ilm/reserves/ontario/pro_on35.php

Chief Pokagon and the Potawatomi Tribe http://members.aol.com/jroache/fact079.html

Citizen Potawatomi Economic Development Report http://www.oiih.org/Economic%20Development%20Report%20-%20March%202001.htm

Citizen Potawatomi Nation http://www.potawatomi.org/

Forest County Potawatomi http://www.fcpotawatomi.com/

Forest County Potawatomi Tribe http://www.glitc.org/tribes/forest_county/default.php

Hannahville Potawatomi Tribal Profile http://www.itcmi.org/thehistorytribal1.html

Huron Potawatomi Indian Village http://www.michmarkers.com/startup.asp?startpage=L1910.htm

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians http://www.itcmi.org/thehistorytribal8.html

Potawatomi http://www.nativeamericans.com/Potawatomi.htm

Potawatamie http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/potawatomi.html

Potawatomi http://www.rootsweb.com/~itsac/potawatomi.htm

Potawatomi Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t79

Potawatomi History http://www.tolatsga.org/pota.html

Potawatomi Indian Reservation, Wisconsin http://www.hometownlocator.com/City/Potawatomi-Indian-Reservatio-Wisconsin.cfm

Potawatomi Indians: Facts for Kids http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/potawatomi_kids.htm

Potawatomi Indian Trail Resolution, 1994

Potawatomi Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/pottawatomie/pottawatomiehist.htm

Potawatomi Language http://www.native-languages.org/potawatomi.htm

Potawatomi Language http://www.potawatomilang.org/

Potawatomi Language http://www.neaseno.org/The%20Potawatomi%20Alphabet.htm

Potawatomi Languiage http://www.ethnologue.org/14/show_language.asp?code=POT

Potawatomi Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.org/14/show_lang_family.asp?code=POT

Potawatomi People http://www.btigerlily.net/BTPotawatomiPeople.html

Potawatomi Treaty http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Treaties/TreatyWithThePotawatomi1846.html

Potawatomi Web http://www.ku.edu/~kansite/pbp/homepage.html

Potawatomi Wildlife Park http://www.getintonature.com/park/

Prairie Band of Potawatomi Community Profile http://www.mnisose.org/profiles/pbpwatmi.htm

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation http://www.pbpindiantribe.com/

Prairie Band Potawatomi Timeline http://www.ku.edu/~kansite/pbp/people/p_chronology.html

*Ethnie:*	POTAWATOMI (NISHNABEK)
Dialect:	Potawatomi
*Language:*	Ojibwa
*Family:*	Central Algonquian
*Stock:*	Algonquian
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	50 (1995 Potawatomi Language Institute)