Nation / Tribe
Potawatomi Nation
The Potawatomi (Bodewadmi, "Keepers of the Fire") are an Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes region and members of the Council of Three Fires alongside the Ojibwe and Ottawa. Their traditional territory encompassed areas of present-day Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The Potawatomi signed numerous treaties with the United States that progressively ceded their Great Lakes homelands. Their removal westward in the 1830s, known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death, displaced thousands to Kansas and Indian Territory. Today, several Potawatomi tribal nations exist across the U.S., including the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Oklahoma.
Portrait: McKenney & Hall, "Me-te-a, a Pottawatomie Chief," 1842. Hand-colored lithograph.
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